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Investigation And Research On Suantang Dialect

Posted on:2015-01-23Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z Y LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1265330428472469Subject:Chinese Philology
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Suantang Dialect is mainly distributed along the border between southeast of Guizhou and southwest of Hunan province. Here is the home of the Miao and Dong People for thousands of years. The shaping of Suantang Dialect is much related to the immigrants of Han People, especially immigrants of Han people during the Song and Yuan Dynasty. The main body of Suantang Dialect is Chinese, at the same time, certain Hmong and Dong language components have mixed into it. As the Southwest Mandarin has been the common language of all the peoples within the area of Suantang Dialect, this area has been classified as the Southwest Mandarin zone. But the phonetic features of Suantang Dialect is distinctly different from those of Southwest Mandarin, but similar to Xiang Dialect’s. The differentiation of Xiang Dialect, however, has never referred to Suantang Dialect. So the investigation and research on Suantang Dialect makes much sense to the further cognition of Chinese Dialect within the mixed living district of the Miao and Dong People, supplementing the differentiation of zones of all the Chinese dialects. This research has investigated6spots of Suantang Dialect. Based on the data of our own and existing ones of other researchers, we have made a cognition of Suantang Dialect again and got new breakthrough. Then we select some characters of vocabulary and grammar of the Ou’tuan spot to describe in detail. We try to make contrast between different spots. The dissertation is composed of eight parts:Chapter1is to sketch out the distribution, the shaping of Suantang Dialect, and the Miao and Dong People and their language within the scope of Suantang Dialect, and to introduce the current situation of research on Suantang Dialect, the content, method and meaning of the research in this dissertation.Chapter2is to describe the synchronic phonetic system of6Suantang Dialect spots, among which Ou’tuan is the representative one. As to the Ou’tuan spot we will provide further material, including the clauses of difference between literary pronunciation and colloquial one, coordination of Shengmu and Yunmu, the homophony syllabary.Chapter3is to make a contrast between modern and ancient times to describe the phonetic features of Suantang Dialect, including Shengmu, Yunmu and Tone, and to analyze the types and levels of the pronunciation. As to Shengmu, the topics are:the aspiration or not of the fully voiced Shengmu of ancient times when read as stop and affricate; the separation and combination of Zhisan and Zhang; the separation and combination of Jing, Zhi’er and Zhuang; the literary and colloquial pronunciation of Jianxi Kaikou Erdeng; the separation and combination of Jian and Tuan; the separation and combination of Fei and Xiao; the separation and combination of Yi and Ying; the types and levels of pronunciation of Ri and so on. As to Yunmu, the topics are:some Yu, Xie, and Zhen She Hekou are usually read as Kaikou; the combination of Zhi She Hekou Sandeng and Yu She Hekou Sandeng; the separation and combination of Yideng and Erdeng of Xie, Xiao, Xian and Shan She; the separation and combination of Xiao She and Liu She and so on. As to Tone, the topics are:the number and value of tones; the kinds and levels of pronunciation of ancient tones read nowadays.Chapter4is to describe the vocabulary of Suantang Dialect, including four parts:the vocabulary chart of Ou’ tuan spot; the phonetic change within a word, and about that, the modeling of tone of a word is the most important topic. Then we try to explore how the Miao and Dong language, and Southwest Mandarin have affected Suantang Dialect because of language contact.Chapter5is to describe grammar of Ou’tuan spot, comparing some characters with that of Mibei spot, composed of two parts:morphology and syntax. In this dissertation, morphology will involve some suffixes of nouns, aspect of verbs, and the expressions of change of degree. Syntax will involve passive voice of sentences, handling sentences; questioning sentences; negative sentences;"是" used as the mark of a topic.Chapter6is to divide Suantang Dialect into two parts on the basis of internal consistency and diversity, according to phonetic standards, referring to some vocabulary and grammar.Chapter7will compare Suantang Dialect with related dialects, including:the Southwest Mandarin, Loushao part of Xiang Dialect, Changyi part of Xiang Dialect,"Jingzhou Vaccent" in Sichuan province. Based on the comparison, we suggest separating Suihui part from the Loushao part, then combine Suihui part with Suantang Dialect into a bigger part, directly subordinating to Xiang Dialect.The ending part summarizes the conclusion and deficiencies of the study in this dissertation, and gives some suggestions for further study.
Keywords/Search Tags:Suantang Dialect, Xiang Dialect, Southwest Mandarin, Hmong language, Dong language, levels, language contact
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