A Study On The Interrogative Category In Dayi Dialect

Taking the interrogative category of Sichuan Dayi dialect as the research object,referring to self-compiled example sentences and relevant works of former scholars,this paper conducted field investigation to collect relevant corpus.Next,this paper organized and summarized the structure types,functional types,modal particles at the end of interrogative sentences and interrogative pronouns in Dayi dialect from the aspects of synchronic description and diachronic survey.The paper consists of three parts: introduction,main text and conclusion.In the introduction part,the author summarizes the previous research results of interrogative category research and the current research situation of Dayi dialect.The main text is composed of five chapters.In the first four chapters,the structure of interrogative sentence is divided into four types: yes-no questions,alternative questions,X-Neg-X questions,and wh-questions.Chapter five introduces echo questions,rhetorical questions,hypophora questions,and tag questions from the perspective of the function and type of interrogative sentences.The yes-no questions in Dayi dialect can be into intonation-type and modal particle-type.They are different because the modal particle attached at the end of the intonation-type yes-no question can express subjective attitudes such as praying,expecting,and gloating while affecting the question degree of the sentence.The alternative questions in Dayi dialect expresses the question by listing the alternatives.Between the alternatives,the conjunctions such as haishi(还是)or the modal particles a(啊),ai(哎),and ma(吗)are used as an interval,which are from different sources.The semantic relations between alternatives can be divided into difference relationship,compatibility relationship and opposite relationship.The structure types of X-Neg-X questions in Dayi dialect can be subdivided into:V-Neg-VO type,VP-Neg type and K-VP type.In terms of VP+M type affirmative-negative question,M is a co-syllable word composed of the negative word bu(不)or mei(没)and the zero-initial modal particle.The co-syllable questions composed of bu(不)are used to ask about subjective wishes and possible events,and the co-syllable questions composed of mei(没)are used to ask about objective conditions and existing events.The wh-questions in Dayi dialect are divided into two categories:general format and simplified format.The general format is expressed as S+M’,and the simplified format is expressed as three forms:PRON+M’,VP+M’,and NP+M’.Through the investigation of the source of the interrogative pronoun niang(娘)in Dayi dialect,the author believed that niang(娘)is composed of the co-syllable na yang(哪样).The author also analyzes the structure of wh-pronoun+ge’er(个儿),and believes that the usage of ge(个)in this structure is from southern dialect.There is small difference between usage of functional questions and mandarin.There are three types of echo questions: yes-no questions,alternative echo questions,selective echo questions,and specific echo questions.Rhetorical questions are used undoubtedly,with a stronger emotional attitude.Hypophora questions are not commonly used much in daily communication of Dayi dialect.The function of the tag question is for confirmation and permission.