A Study On The Question Of Loufan Dialect

There is an indispensable sentence structure called question in any kind of language. Multifarious investigation have been done in the field of ancient Chinese question, mordern Chinese question and contemporary Chinese question(including mandarin and dialect).However, until now there is no ralative research on question of Loufan Dialect. Because of the geographical feature of Loufan surroundings and the special historical cultrural conditions, Loufan Dialect becomes a comparative particularity. It lies in question features of Loufan Dialect.In this thesis, almost all instances of Loufan question are investigated and explained as possible as I can.This thesis are discussed by deviding into four parts:Part 1: 10 kinds of basic sentence patterns are enumerated in the question of Loufan Dialect .We also use the ralative theory to conclude and catogorize it as: yes or no question, reference question, alternative question and contradictory question. Among them, yes or no question and contradictory question and their relationship is the emphases of this part. Then, we have a necessary discussion about the semantic contents and pragmatics factors.Part 2: We will discuss the subjects revelant to Loufan questions. When classifying them, the questions always badger with the "aspect" category. So in this part,the empheses are the concrete patterns, together with aspect, in the question of Loufan Dialect.Furthermore, the interrogative words are the main informational boader of questional focus, therefore, we take the necessary research on the implication of the main interrogative words.Part 3: We will compare the question of Loufan Dialect with it of other dialects in SHANXI(山西) provience, groping for the traits of question in Loufan Dialect; We also will compare it with the question in SHANBEI (陕北) Dialect, one part of JINYU(晋语),and make the difference evident. From the respect of historical culture,we should provide some reasonable reasons for the striking similarity in Loufan Dialect and in Shanbei Dialect.From the diachronic view, the geographic position of SHANXI provience was very important. Taiyuan city was used as accompany Capital or military base, so in...