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Lexical Research On Tuhua In Southern Hunan Province

Posted on:2004-01-15Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:X R LuoFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360095951665Subject:Chinese Philology
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On the basis of plentiful information which comes from the author s practical field work and other' s achievements, this paper uses a series of scientific methods to study and compare the Tuhua in southern Hunan province synthetically. The methods have seemed to be related to synchronic integrating diachronic, synthetical judgements, comparative linguistics, statistics , systematicanism, cognitive lingustics and so on. The object of this paper is to explore the lexical features of Tuhua in southern Hunan, comprehend the interrelationship among Tuhua or even the relationship between Tuhua and its neighboring dialects. At last it tries to find what kind of dialect Tuhua in southern Hunan should belong to.Eight chapters can be divided in this paper.The first chapter gives an introduction of southern Hunan' s location, population and a survey of dialects, as well as the main idea of this paper, its researching methods and its practical meaning. It also gives the spots which have been studied and the resources of information.By comparing the neighboring dialects, the second chapter chooses forty seven distinctive words in Tuhua for description. It also puts forwardtheir origins and quantitative analysis.In the third chapter, the author analyzes several kinds of phonetical distinctive words, offers a probable explanation to some special phenomenon and gives a quantitative analysis to five kinds of common words.The fourth chapter describes the commonly used measure words in Tuhua and reveals their features. From the perspective of cognition, the author explains the features of commonly used measure word " ".From the aspect of form, content, meaning and function, some distinctive suffixes are described in the fifth chapter. The suffix " " and its variant, the suffix of gender, " " and " ", and the affix " " are described in this chapter, the productivity of some suffixes have been ex-plained in a cognitive way.Using the ground theory combining with historical backgrounds such as migration and military deployment. The sixth chapter analyzes the historical levels of the vocabulary in Tuhua in southern Hunan. The levels include: the bottom level of minority nationality languages, the basic level of classical words, the level of Xiang dialect ,the level of Ke Gan dialect, the level of official dialect and the creative words of Tuhua. From the diachronic aspect , the author arranges the vocabulary of Tuhua in southern Hunan which had been in a complicated and varigated situation.The seventh chapter counts up and analyzes seven hundred and thirty five common words in Tuhua in XiangNan including their similarities and dissimilarities, their different behavior in different kinds of vocabulary. The author puts forward a conclusion that the rate of divergence inside Tuhua of Southern Hunan is higher than the similarity. The author takes 735 common words as objects to count up the similar rates of the spots of Tuhua and their neigboring dialects. By means of all this the author gives a tentative analysis to the internal relationship among the spots of Tuhua and the relationship between them and the neighboring dialects.The last chapter summarizes the main features of vocabulary in Tuhua in southern Hunan, synthesizes the percentage reached by three indexes which stems from the second chapter, the third chapter and the seventh chapter, and integrates the percentages with the using of the common measure words to divide the Tuhua in southern Hunan. This paper also analyses the relationship between Tuhua in southern Hunan and its neighboring dialects and puts forward the belongings that Tuhua in southern Hunan should be.
Keywords/Search Tags:the Tuhua in southern Hunan province, vocabulary, compare
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