A Study Of Affixes In Qinyang Dialect

Qinyang is located at the border of Henan Province and Shanxi Province,in the transition zone between Jin dialect and Zhongyuan official dialect.According to the New Atlas of Chinese Language,Qinyang dialect belongs to Huoji,a small dialectal area of the Jin dialect region.This dissertation takes Qinyang dialect affixes as the object of study,and collects the corpus through the method of field survey and literature collection.The paper mainly describes and analyzes the structure,pragmatics,and semantics of affixes in Qinyang dialect from the synchronic level,and also discusses the source and diachronic development of some affixes.The purposes of this study are to improve the study of affixes in Qinyang dialect,and to further provide more informative data for the study of affixes in Chinese dialect.This paper consists of three parts: Introduction,Text,and Conclusion,and the main contents of each part are as follows: the introduction part introduces the concept of affixes,the current status of Jin dialect affixes research,the general situation of Qinyang,the research method,research significance and the sources of the corpus.The main part is a specific study of the affixes in Qinyang dialect.Chapter one analyzes the grammatical,semantic and pragmatic aspects of the affix “ge”,and explores the origin and development of the affix “ge”.Chapter two describes and analyzes the structure of“lao XX” in Qinyang dialect,and explores the quasiaffix tendency of “lao” in “lao XX”.Chapter three and four describe and analyze the abusive affixes and indicative affixes in Qinyang dialect at the conjunctive and ephemeral level,and compare the same types of affixes.Chapter five introduces the affixes with small meanings in the Qinyang dialect.It introduces the pronunciation characteristics of the affix “er” and the atrophy of the affix “zi”,and describes the affixes “hu”,“bu” and “gu”.Chapter six introduces and describes two mood suffixes,“hang” and “fan”.Finally,the conclusion summarizes the whole paper and points out the shortcomings of it.The innovation of this thesis is twofold: firstly,this paper systematically describes and analyzes Qinyang affixes at the synchronic level,and tries to explore the diachronic evolution of some of them.Secondly,the paper considers the “lao” in “lao XX” as a quasiaffix in the process of developing into affixes.