A Typological Description Of Tujia Language

From the establishment of new China, Tujia language attracted more and more researchers to carry on the investigation and research in language’s internal structure, function, status and reasons, and they have made a lot of achievements. The main content of this paper is the comprehensive description about Tujia language, and the discussion about the order of Attributive-Center.In the second chapter, the author selected81features from WALS and made the comprehensive description of Tujia with these features, covering the phonology, morphology, Nominal Categories, Nominal Syntax, Verbal Categories, word order, Simple Clause and Complex Sentences. To a certain extent, the description is a complementary to the previous research literature from the typological point view. At the same time, the paper points out that the current corpus is not sufficient to make conclusions about some parameters, thus providing a guide line for further investigations of Tujia language in the future.In the third chapter, the author made in-depth description about the order of Attributive-head, and researched the content which did not match the two principles: universality and implicational universals, and pointed out the reasons.