Study On The Emotional Adverb "ban Tian" In The Dialect Of Xincai,henan

Based on a great deal of dialect vocabulary and corpus, the thesis makes synchronic as well as diachronic studies on the word Ban Tian (半天) from four aspects: syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and origin and development. The aim of the study is to get an overall understanding of the word through a combination of induction with deduction.The thesis is made up of four parts.In the first part, the syntax and syntactic features of Ban Tian (半天) are analyzed from aspects of syntactic positions and functions. While analyzing its syntactic functions, the author provides a detailed description and analysis of Ban Tian1(半天1), Ban Tian2(半天2) as connectors and their co-occurrence with other words.In the second part, the semantic structure and orientation of Ban Tian (半天) are analyzed. The basic semantic structure of Ban Tian (半天) is established through an investigation of the corpus, on the basis of which the semantic orientation of Ban Tian (半天) is explored.In the third part, the pragmatic functions of Ban Tian1(半天1) and Ban Tian2(半天2) as emotional adverbs are analyzed mainly from aspects of sentence category distribution and expressive functions.In the forth part, the origin and development of Ban Tian (半天) are analyzed. It is claimed that the word Ban Tian (半天) was originally an object noun, then it develops into a space nouns, a temporal noun, a temporal adverb, and finally into an emotional adverb.