A Study On Pronouns Of Nanzhao Dialect

Nanzhao dialect belongs to the areas of nanlu piece of zhongyuan Mandarin.On the basis of field investigation,this paper describes the phonetic feature of Nanzhao dialect,the meaning and usage of pronouns of Nanzhao dialect in synchronic description,and traces the origin and pronunciation of specific pronouns in Nanzhao dialect in diachronic description.It conparatively analyzes the similarities and differences in usage between the pronouns of Nanzhao dialect and the related pronouns of Mandarin,and that between the different pronouns within the Nanzhao dialect.It strives to fully display the pronoun system of Nanzhao dialect.The full text is divided into five parts.The first part is the introduction,sketching the geographical position,administrative divisions and historical evolution of Nanzhao County,describing the phonetic profile and attribution of Nanzhao dialect,introducing the current achievement and significance of the research on Nanzhao dialect,and the research method of this paper.It annotates the commonly used characters,and illustrates the special symbols.All this is in order to prepare for comprehensively describing the pronoun system of Nanzhao dialect.The second part is the personal pronoun of Nanzhao dialect,which classifies the personal pronouns of Nanzhao dialect and describes and analyzes their usages and sources.The correspondence between the first person pronoun and the second person pronoun in the Nanzhao dialect is very strong,And the third person pronoun ta is infected by wo and ni,reading the falling-rising tone.They both embody the systematic discourse of the Nanzhao dialect personal pronoun.There are two meanings of men after the nouns,plural and collection.Self-addressing pronouns is rich in its form.The zi jie,zi ger,zi ji are the forms.The referral pronoun ren jia combined as ran.There are no honorifics and generally referral pronouns in Nanzhao dialect.The third part is the demonstrative pronoun of Nanzhao dialect,describing and analyzing the usage of the demonstrative pronouns of Nanzhao dialect.The demonstrative pronoun is basically one-to-one in the distal terms and close terms.Its forms are mainly derived from the basic forms of zhe and na,by means of retroflex suffixation,recombination and phonetic merger.The multi-tone phenomenon is abundant,The difference of the meaning and the grammatical function may lead to the change of the pronouns' pronunciation.The fourth part is the interrogative pronoun of Nanzhao dialect,describing and analyzing the interrogative and non-interrogative usage of interrogative pronouns in Nanzhao dialect.The interrogative pronouns are highly responsive to the persona pronouns and the demonstrative pronouns,which shows the systematic nature of the pronouns of Nanzhao dialect.The shui,sha,na.za and duo are the basic forms of interrogative pronoun of Nanzhao dialect.And the other interrogative pronouns are retroflexed,compound or phnonlogically changed based on these words.The interrogative pronoun of Nanzhao dialect is rich in the phenomenon of pronoun chorus,and the phenomenon of pronunciations.The fifth part is the conclusion,summarizing the general form of the pronouns of Nanzhao dialect.It sums up the main features of the pronouns of Nanzhao dialect as rich in the phenomenon of pronoun chorus,in the phenomenon of pronunciations,and the phenomenon of voice generalization.