Citations:-erize

English citations of erize and -erize

• 1991, V Børdahl, Grammatical gleanings from a Yangzhou storyteller's tale, in Cahiers de linguistique-Asie orientale:

  […] is suffixed to nouns similarly to the erization in MSC. […] MSС xiàzi is infrequent, the erized form xiàr or the unsuffixed form xià being preferred in most Northern dialects […]

• 1993, 東吳外語學報, page 103:

  Bernes (1977) is focused on nouns -erized in word-final position. This linguistic phenomenon is characteristic in northern Chinese speech and notably in Beijing, the capital of People's Republic of China. Not all word final nouns are subject to -erization in Standard Mandarin.

• 1993, Indiana East Asian Working Paper Series on Language and Politics in Modern China:

  Conflicting Meanings of Suffixual -Erization in Standard Mandarin

  This paper follows Barnes (1977) in focusing only on nouns -erized in word final position. […] people (speakers of Beijing language as opposed to Beijing patois) do not -erize this word.

• 2008, Jennifer M. Wei, To -er is to err: acts of identity in Chinese, in Language choice and identity politics in Taiwan →ISBN, chapter 1, page 11:

  However, I could accept teachers who -erized their Chinese all the time, not just in front of the foreign students. Once when I was walking in Hong Kong, I heard a person behind me -erizing almost every word. I turned around and found out that it was a foreigner speaking Chinese. He spoke like someone from Beijing.