Research on Shenmu Dialect

Author: Xing Xiangdong
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Publish Date: 2002-11-01
Features: This book places the Shaanbei Shenmu dialect within the macro framework of Jin dialect, combining static description, synchronic comparison, and diachronic tracing to comprehensively and systematically examine the phonology, vocabulary, and grammar of the Shenmu dialect. The phonology section describes and discusses the phonological system, internal variations, and phonetic changes of the dialect, conducts diachronic comparisons and explains exceptional words, and summarizes the phonological characteristics of the dialect from horizontal and vertical perspectives, listing a list of homophones. The vocabulary section discusses the phonological, structural, and semantic characteristics of special vocabulary such as ancient words, disyllabic words, "ge" head words, reduplicated words, rhotacized words, four-character phrases, and place names, provides diachronic explanations for some vocabulary phenomena, conducts internal and external comparisons of the dialect's vocabulary, and lists a classified vocabulary list. The grammar section describes the word formation, adverbs, pronouns, structural particles, aspect particles, tense particles, mood expression system, and complex sentence expression means of the dialect, and conducts diachronic studies of some grammatical elements. Finally, it discusses several theoretical issues in dialectological research.