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A Study On The Grammar Of Meihua Min Dialect In Maonan,Guangdong Province

Posted on:2024-08-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C Y YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2555307106497634Subject:Chinese Philology
Abstract/Summary:
Meihua town is located in Maonan District,Maoming City,Guangdong province.The area is mainly spoken in Cantonese and Min dialect.Meihua Min dialect belongs to the Min dialect of Leizhou.In this paper,the grammar of Meihua Min Dialect in Guangdong province is taken as the research object,and the features of morphology and syntax of Meihua Min dialect are analyzed by means of description,analysis and synchronic comparison.This paper is divided into seven chapters except the introduction and conclusion.The introduction part mainly introduces the human geography survey,dialect survey and the related research present situation,and explains this article research goal,the research content and the research method,and the style of this paper and the source of language materials.Chapter One mainly introduces the affixes and reduplications of Manchurian.The suffixes of Meihua Min dialect have strong word-formation ability and are mainly used to form nouns,such as“囝”“□[(?)(?)21]”“头”“婆”.The reduplication of nouns is not as abundant as that of adjectives and verbs,and some monosyllabic noun-morpheme words and verbs can be converted into state adjectives after reduplication,the verb reduplication VV pattern can express many grammatical meanings in the sentence,such as short time,small amount,continuous and so on.Chapter Two examines the personal pronouns,demonstrative pronouns and interrogative pronouns in min dialect.The plural form of personal pronoun in Meihua Min dialect is“侬”and“□[nai44]侬”.The demonstrative pronoun is composed of the near-denotative“□[ja55]”,“□[j(?)(?)44]”and the far-denotative“哈”,“□[h(?)(?)44]”as the basic form,and then add other morphemes.Interrogative pronouns are mainly composed of interrogative morphemes“底”,“乜”or“夥”with ontological components.Chapter Three examines the degree adverbs,scope adverbs,time adverbs,negative adverbs,modal adverbs,mood adverbs of Meihua Min dialect,among which time adverbs,modal adverbs and time adverbs are the most abundant.Compared with Putonghua,the temporal adverbs can only be used as postpositional adverbials,not as prepositional adverbials.Chapter Four mainly introduces time-place preposition,agent-patient preposition,relevant preposition,instrument-based preposition and cause-purpose preposition.There are many concurrent prepositions in Meihua Min dialect,such as“走”,“放”,“分”,“拈”and“凑”.Synonymous prepositions are relatively abundant,“伫”,“走”,“同”,“从”can refer to the starting point of time or place,“攞”,“拈”,“□[niau44]”,“放”,“用”can be used as a preposition to refer to the material and tool.Chapter Five introduces ten kinds of conjunctions,such as coordinate conjunctions,selective conjunctions,conditional conjunctions and concession conjunctions of Meihua Min dielect.The form and usage of some conjunctions in dialect are basically the same as those in Putonghua,and the differences between them are mainly reflected in the morphology and pronunciation,but there are also some conjunctions with dialect characteristics,such as the“无”of the selection and hypothesis relations,and the“□[mai44]”of the selection relations.Chapter Six studies the structure auxiliary,the aspect auxiliary,the mood auxiliary and other auxiliary.The attributive marker“阿”and“□[nai44]”are different in the use frequency and the choice of head language.Aspect auxiliary mainly includes realization aspect auxiliary“倒1”and“哦”,progressive aspect auxiliary“紧”,continuous aspect auxiliary“倒2”,starting aspect auxiliary“起来”,continuing aspect auxiliary“落去”,experiencing aspect auxiliary“过1”,emphasizing aspect“过2”,trying aspect auxiliary“看过”and short aspect auxiliary“囝”.In the aspect of mood particle,interrogative mood is the most abundant,followed by declarative mood particle,imperative mood particle,and finally exclamatory mood particle.There is a category of modal auxiliary in Meihua Min dialect.The modal auxiliary“做”is used to emphasize the action after the verb.Chapter seven analyzes the word order and sentence structure of Meihua Min dialect.A small number of adverbs in min dialect are postposed adverbials in sentences,and the word order of double object sentences is“V+O2+O1”under certain conditions,the order of possible complements,quantitative complements,and referential objects in sentences is also slightly different from that in Mandarin.In the aspect of sentence pattern,the structure type of simple comparative sentence of Min dialect is not as rich as that of differential comparative sentence.The disposal sentence requires the agent subject to be a living noun,and the disposal mark comes from the grammaticalization of“拈”or“□[niau44]”,which means holding meaning,while the passive sentence requires the agent to be present,the passive marker“分”is borrowed from Hakka people dialect in eastern or western Guangdong.The conclusion summarizes the contents of this paper,and points out the limitations,existing problems and future research prospects.
Keywords/Search Tags:Meihua Min dialect, morphology, syntax
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