Yuanjiang Bitter Cong, Then Syntax

This dissertation aims to synchronically make a comprehensive and systematic study of Kucong, a language of Yi Branch, Tibeto-Burman Group, the Sino-Tibetan Family on the basis of reference grammar, mainly covering its phonological system, parts of speech and syntactic system.The dissertation consists of seventeen chapters.Chapter One offers A short description of the Kucong-speaking nationality and the designing of the dissertation., a general presentation of the language itself, a brief picture of the present situation of language use of the nationality in question and a looking-back of past linguistic researches on the language are simultaneously covered. Chapter Two decribes the phonological system of Kucong, the main contents being consonants(initials), vowels(finals), tonic types and syllable canon.Chapter Three makes a presentation of word-building process of the language, namely, compounding and affixation. The chapter ends with a short inventory of loans (mainly from Chinese)of the language and argot. Chapter Four to Chapter Thirteen is made up of ten sub-sections, focusing on the parts of speech of Kucong, including noun, pronoun, numeral, quantifier, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction, particle, and interjection respectively. Each section is a general description of the grammatical features of each part of speech, with special attention to their grammatical functions and peculiar syntactic behaviors, if any. take verb for example, such phenomena as grammatical aspects, grammatical voices, verbal directionality, verb-noun relativization and grammaticalization are given sufficient observation and description. A few of conjunction and particles is given a whole and plausible listChapter Fourteen is made up of coordinate phrase, the order of nominal phrase structure, the structure of the verb complex and the constituent order of the clause.Chapter Fifteen focuses on the copular sentences,comparative construction and topic-comment constructions.Chapter Sixteen concentrate upon syntactic moods, including declarative mood, optative mood, interrogative mood and exclamative mood.Chapter Seventeen analyses and describes relative clause, complement clause, subordinate clause and coordinate clause detailedly.It is strongly wished on the part of the author that the present study will be helpful to the further research of the language and beneficial to the contrastive research and typological study of the Sino-Tibetan Family.