Study On The Aspectual System Of Hunan Dialect In Sichuan Province From The Perspective Of Dialect Contact

According to the historical event “immigration from Hunan to Sichuan”about 300 hundred years ago, we intent to study the dialect contact problem of aspectual system between Hunan dialect and southwest mandarin.We did a field investigation in Anren, Dachuan district,Guangfu;Zhongjiang county; Zhugao, Jintang county; Linjiang, Kaixian county; Jing’an, Kaijiang county; Laodong, Lezhi county, and according to the related records in genealogies and monographs,we make sure that Lianyuan city, Yiyang city,Shaoyang city, Changsha city are the immigration places which Sichuan people come from in the event “an immigration from Hunan to Sichuan”. As compared points, we also did a field investigation on the Hunan dialect in those places to attain the first-hand materials. Armed with the related theories, such as Descriptive Linguistics, Geographical Linguistics, Contiguous Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, we will comprehensively outline the modes, rules and features of contact evolution between the Hunan dialect and southwest mandarin in Sichuan.This paper includes seven parts, including five chapters: The introduction part will illustrate the cause of topic selection, and summarize the related achievements of aspectual system, language contact, Hunan dialect in Sichuan. At the same time, we will point out the research significance, research methods, theoretical basis, and the meaning of some special marks.Chapter one to chapter four are the main parts of the paper. We arranged those first-hand language materials from the field work in Sichuan and Hunan, and then combining the old documents and the new materials, we made a comparative analysis between the move-out and move-into regions.Chapter one is about perfective aspect marker, and chapter two is about continuous aspect marker. Firstly, we described the different aspect markers of Hunan dialect in Sichuan that have the same meaning. Secondly, we compared the aspect markers of Hunan dialect in Sichuan with those in Hunan on the phonetic form, syntactic distribution and grammatical meaning. Thirdly, on the prospective of division that one aspect marker is in the aspectual system, we can see the relation between the move-out and move-in regions according to the similarities, as a result, we can provide a proof of language for the historical event “immigration from Hunan to Sichuan”Chapter three and chapter four we describe the experiential aspect,xianxing aspect, inceptive aspect; repeated morphology, short-time morphology, attempt morphology, and summarize the similarities and differences of expressions between the move-out and move-in regions.Chapter five and the last part are core parts of this paper. Based on the description and analysis, we outline some features of contact evolution of Hunan dialect in Sichuan:1.Overlay.That is to say, there are both Hunan dialect characteristics and southwest characteristics in the language system in Hunan dialect island in Sichuan. Such as the co-existence of perfective aspect marker “呱” and “了[liau]/[lau]”in Zhongjiang county and Kaijiang county; the co-existence of continuous aspect marker “得[t?]” and “�'” in Anren village.2.Replacement. That is to say, some of the aspect markers or the expressions in Hunan dialect island were completely replaced by southwest mandarin. For example, the southwest mandarin aspect marker“哆” replaced the one that is from Hunan dialect characteristics in Zhongjiang, Jintang, Kaijiang,Lezhi, and Kaixian county.3.Unbalanced. It means that among all the investigation points in Sichuan, the degree of being affected by southwest mandarin is different. Hunan dialect in Anren is relatively preserved intact, but other places are strongly affected.4.Difference of the assimination. Among the aspects in the system, the degree of the assimination of perfective aspect by southwest mandarin is not so badly like other type in the aspect system. “哩” and “过” in Anren village, “呱” in Zhongjiang and Kaijiang county, “�'�” in Jintang county keeps a highly frequent use. And other Hunan dialect aspects are fading, event completely replaced by southwest mandarin.5. On the view of the syntactic position, there is a currency of use of the perfective aspect marker, from the ending of a sentence to the middle place of a sentence when they are replaced by southwest mandarin marker.