The Comparative Research Of Kinship Terms System Between Eshan Yi Language And Chinese

The system of Eshan yi language kinship terms, including up to three and down to four generations seven consanguinity kinship terms in total, is a integrated well-regulated and rigorous system, which is the most important part in yi language for communicating and social structure. The words of Eshan yi language kinship terms, the most essential part in the system of Eshan yi language kinship terms, are the basic vocabulary in yi language. To describe the system of Eshan yi language kinship terms and hackle the development, pronunciation, word structure and cultural trait is worthy to be done for linguistic theory and practice.The paper is based on field research, questionnaire, interview and transcription. Use the theories of sociolinguistics transformational-generative linguistics cultural linguistics, such as language contract the relationship of related languages universal syntax and so on, to sum up whole situation of the system of Eshan yi language kinship terms, and then compare the system of Eshan yi language liangshan yi language and chinese kinship terms by the way of mathematical statistics contrastive analysis, in the aim of finding the reason to their similarities and differences. With long-term exposure of chinese, how is the look that condition of service of Eshan yi language kinship terms system and the variation between the system of Eshan yi and liangshan yi language kinship terms. Finally, we will find out the influence of special social and linguistic circumstance to yi language which located in chinese and ha’ni language. Among language contacts, different melting-pot mode can make the incidence, influence degree and effect become more different.