初论萨丕尔语言“沿流”之简化流向

从分析萨丕尔的语言沿流观入手，进而考察语言过去的历史，从而论证萨丕尔所指“语言沿流是有方向的，这个方向大体上可以从语言过去的历史推断出来”，得出语言过去的历史即为不断趋于简化的历史，进而推断出语言沿流是朝简化这一方向发展的。此外，对萨丕尔《语言论》中关于语言沿流的论述进行详细剖析，发现萨氏在论述英语三大沿流的表层背后，实则是在强烈暗示语言沿流之简化流向。这样，以语言过去简化的历史和萨氏在语言沿流论述中精心暗舍的关于语言简化的言语论据相互印证，所以，论断萨丕尔言及但未明确表明的语言沿流之总方向——简化。

Simplified Flow of the Sapir-language"Drift"

This passage was started with going deep into Sapir's standpoint of the language drift,reviewing the history of the language and demonstrating that Sapir points out the language drift has the direction which can be generally concluded by the history of the language.The history of the language is the one which is going simplified constantly,so we can conclude that the language drift developed towards the direction of simplification.Furthermore,we analyze the argumentation which is about the language drift in...