The Study Of Language Contact From The Classifiers In The Dialects Of Zhuang And Chinese Of The Guangxi Autonomous Region In The Typological Perspective

In this thesis,I will take the classifiers of four dialects of Zhuang language(Donglan,Guigang,Tianyang,Chongzuo)and six dialects of Chinese language(Lung'an,Fusui,Nanning,Guiping,Bobai,Hezhou)as the objects of my study.According to the theoretical studing of Aikhenvald 2000 as studying frame,to describe the semantic and syntactic functions of classifiers in the dialects of Guangxi Zhuang and Chinese languages from the typological perspective,analyzing similarities and differences on typological features of the dialects of Guangxi Zhuang and Chinese languages by constrastive method.Last,we will probe into the variations due to contacting in the dialects of Guangxi Zhuang and Chinese languages from the perspective of language contact.This thesis consists of four chapters,the second and third chapters are the principal parts.Chapter 1,Preface.It makes a brief introduction of the relative theoretical knowledge of classifiers,the current study of classifiers in Guangxi Zhuang and Chinese languages 's dialects,the research significance,the research methods,the innovations,the research framework,the sources corpus,the defining terms and so on.Chapter 2,The classifiers' semantic systems in the dialects of Zhuang and Chinese languages of Guangxi.It consists of four sections.The first and second sections describes and inducts the semantic systems of Zhuang and Chinese languages' dialects repectively,summarizing the typological features of classifiers'semantic systems.The third section,comparing the typological differences of the classifiers' semantic systems in the dialects of Zhuang and Chinese languages.The forth section,analyzing the variations because of contacting from language contact's perspective.Chapter 3,The classifiers's yntactic functions in the dialects of Zhuang and Chinese languages of Guangxi.It consists of four sections.The first and second sections enumerates and describes the classifiers' syntactic functions of Zhuang and Chinese languages'dialects.The third section,comparing the typological differences of the classifiers,syntactic functions in the dialects of Zhuang and Chinese languages.The forth section,analyzing the variations because of contacting from language contact's perspective.On the semantic aspects,in Chinese dialects,the humans distinguish "sexual" "age""dislike",the animals are regarded as animate,the branching semantic in one dimensional inanimate object.This variations are contact with Zhuang language.But Zhuang language's classifiers have the variations is that borrowing some classifiers from the Chinese dialects,for example "ge" "dian”.On the syntactic functions aspects,the classifiers have more influences than Chinses dialects,for example,"CL+N" denoting definite,the overlapping classifiers can denote full backup,the origin of“NUM+CL+N”word order.Contrary,the Chinese dialects have less variations,currently find out the Ping dialect's prefix phenomenon is contacted with Zhuang language.