On The Marks Of Aspect And Mood Of Rucheng Dialect In Hunan

Located at the border of Hunan, Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces, Rucheng county is an transitional area which its dialect is influenced by many Chinese dialects such as Kejia, Xiang, Kan, Yue and Tu. Rucheng dialect is a mixed dialect which could be seen easily from its phonology, its grammar which will be discussed in this thesis will show this feature too.The study mainly focuses on the grammar of Rucheng dialect by making a research about the marks of aspect and mood.This study will not only make up the shortages of the study on grammar of Rucheng dialect, but also could add some fresh materials for the studies of Chinese's aspect and mood. Basing on the agreed opinions of some authorities, this paper differentiates Mood from Aspect strictly. ASPECT means that the description of the mode of the action is objective, while MOOD expresses some ideas of speaker. This paper generalized six kinds of marks of aspect and mood in Rucheng dialect.The marks of aspect includingå–¥[tu],适喥[s(?) tu],èµ·[s(?)],å’‘₁ [to],å’‘₁å–¥[to tu],过₁ [ku].å–¥means achieved, and according to the structures of syntax, its meaning can be broke into three groups achievement-end, achievement-state continue, and achievement-action continue.适喥andèµ·are marks of beginning aspect. And the meaning of适喥is approximately the same with了[le] in standard Chinese which is often been used at the ending of a sentence and their meanings including now-beginning, future-beginning and past-beginning which are related to the present. The markså’‘₁ andå’‘1å–¥are divided into two types, one refers to continuing which is a static process, the other refers to doing which is a dynamic process.过₁ means experienced.The marks of mood includingå‘·[ka],å’‘2 [to],ç¿»[fa],过2 [ku],å¾—[t?],下[xo]. Both ofå‘·andå’‘2 refer to achievement, but their subjective meaning are different,the former holds more subjective quantity than the later.ç¿»[fa] means restore, again or go-on which often embrace speaker's command.过₂ [ku] is used when speaker hopes the action happens again, andå¾—[t(?)] is used when speaker guesses the doers have ability,下[xo] is used when speaker thinks the action is easy.While introducing the marks of aspect and mood in Rucheng dialect, we compared theå–¥,å’‘,å‘·,ç¿»in Rucheng dialect and Xiang dialect, Ke dialect, Kuangzhou dialect and proved that Rucheng dialect is a dialect with mixed characteristics on grammar. The thesis is composed of four parts which including introduction, the marks of aspect, the marks of mood and the conclusion.