A Study On The Personal Pronouns Of Zhuang Dialect In The Perspective Of Language Contact

This article makes a comprehensive study of personal pronouns of Guangxi southern and northern Zhuang dialect, on the basis of typology theory, grammaticalization theory and language contact theory. By analyzing the data, summarizes the characteristics of personal pronouns of Guangxi southern and northern Zhuang dialect.And comparing personal pronouns of the south and north zhuang dialect,to find out the differences and universals types of personal pronouns of Zhuang dialect.It consists of seven chapters.Chapter 1, perface. It makes a brif introduction of the current study of personal pronouns and explains the theoretical framework,the selection of dialect points and data sources,the research methods,the main research contents,the innovation of this study.Chapter 2, The first person pronoun. From the perspective of pragmatics,analyses the conceited appellation, popular names and self-abasing terms of the first person pronoun of the north and south Zhuang dialect.From the perspective of grammaticalization, discusses the evolution of the three appellations.From the perspective of language contact,analyses the situation that the inclusive of first person pronoun of Zhuang dialect interfused the exclusive.Chapter 3, The second person pronoun. From the perspective of pragmatics,analyses the reservation of three terms of the second person pronoun of the north and south Zhuang dialect. From the perspective of grammaticalization,discusses the evolution of the three appellations.Chapter 4, The third person pronoun. From the perspective of grammaticalization,discusses the two sources of the third person pronoun of Zhuang dialect,that are demonstrative pronouns and classifiers.And analyses the stages of grammaticalization of the third person pronoun.Chapter 5,Explains the personal pronouns association with the categories of number.The plurals of first and second person pronoun are that Northern Zhuang dialect use the person-number stem,southern Zhuang dialect use the person stem with a plural affix.And the plurals of third person pronoun divides into two categories:singular and plural form are the same,plus affixes in the singular form.Chapter 6, Discusses emphatic pronouns,anaphoric pronouns,reflexive pronouns and reciprocal meaning.Chapter 7, summarizes the full-text.