A Study On The Dialect Pronouns Of Sunji Town (Nanxin Village)

Recently,grammar field pays more attention to pronouns of Chinese dialects and achieved a series of fruitful results.Sunji is located in Linyi county,which is in the northwest of Yuncheng city in Shanxi province.In the Language Atlas of China,Sunji dialect belongs to Xiezhou piece which is the member of Fenhe River piece in Zhongyuan Mandarin.By analyzing the forms and functions of personal pronouns,demonstrative pronouns and interrogative pronouns in Sunji dialect,this paper expounds from the perspectives of phonetics,semantics,grammar,pragmatics and text.The paper is divided into five parts in total.The first part of the paper is introduction.It mainly includes the general introduction of Sunji town in history,geography and dialect phonetics.The research status and significance of this topic are reviewed,then the significance of the paper,the research content,the research method,the source of the corpus and the explanation of the style are mentioned.The second part studies the personal pronouns in the dialect of Sunji Town(Nanxin Village)systematically.Firstly,the basic forms are visualized in tables,which are divided into two parts:three-person pronouns and non-three-person pronouns.Their usages are classified and described in detail,such as,the basic usages,general usages,transfer and other unique usages in three-person pronouns,some usages in non-three-person pronouns especially in pronouns calling yourself,pronouns of others and so on.In the end,the issue of honorifics in Sunji dialect was discussed.The third part of the paper is demonstrative pronouns in Sunji dialect which is the focus of this article.Different from the description in the past,this part focuses on the different phonetic forms of demonstrative pronouns and divides them into two parts:"single syllable demonstrative pronouns" and "non-single syllable demonstrative pronouns".According to the related research of text grammar theory,the single syllable demonstrative pronouns in this paper focuses on the functions such as text deixis,text conjunction,discourse coherence,topic tag,etc.The non-single syllable demonstrative pronouns are classified semantically.The fourth part is systematic research on interrogative pronouns.Firstly,it introduces the basic combination of interrogative pronouns and their phonetic forms.Then it classifies and studies their different types.Finally,examples of the features and non-doubt usages of interrogative pronouns in dialects are illustrated.The fifth part is a summary of the whole paper.It briefly summarizes the main characteristics of pronouns in the three types above in Sunji dialect and points out the issues that have not been resolved yet in the text and need further study in the future.