A Survey of the Omission of "Jia" in the Pronoun "Renjia" in the Beijing Dialect

On the basis of the results of written materials and sample survey,this paper points out that jia in the pronoun renjia can be omitted in the Beijing Dialect.Although it does not occur in all Beijingers' spoken dialect,it widely exists.The pronoun renjia,whether it refers to other people,or the third person,or the narrator himself/herself,can have its short form ren without jia.This omission appears in the position of subject,object and attributive in a sentence.When renjia precedes a noun or a nominal phrase(without de),jiacan be naturally left out;when renjia acts as an attributive with de,the omission renjia is unacceptable for most people,and when renjia appears at the end of a sentence,jia can not be omitted.