绝大部分“X然”形容词、副词、拟声词都可以后附“间”,但使用频率和可接受度相差很远。“X然+间”既可以通过“间”的时点化以凸显瞬间性,又可以通过“间”的时段化以转化为持续性。“间”表瞬间时语义功用已经弱化,正逐步虚化为羡余性的类后缀,“间”表持续时语法功能正在强化,正向持续性体标记转化。大部分“X然间”还是一个单词加后置词或准体标记的语法词,而一部分最常用的“X然+间”正在由语法词向词汇词发展。
The over-whelming majority of the adjectives, adverbs and onomatopoeias constituted by "Xran" can be attached of "jian" in modern Chinese, but the frequency and universality are far different among them. The phrase-words of "Xvanjian" can not only be used to stress instantaneous through emphasizing the time of the moment, but also be used to stress continuity by emphasizing the time of period. Nowadays the effects of expressing instantaneous about some "jian" are more and more weak and are becoming some redundancy quasi-suffixes, while the functions of expressing continuity are stronger and stronger and are becoming some non-typical aspect markers. While a large amount of "Xranjian" are still phrases or phrase-words, others are developing lexical words with redundancy quasi-suffix.