Title: A Survey of the Lexical and Grammatical Features of the Yue Dialect in the Xi Jiang River Valley
Abstract:As an undeveloped dialectal mine, the Yue dialect in the Xi Jiang River Valley widens our vision with its lexical and grammatical features. Compared with Cantonese in Guangfu Subgroup, it shows more a...As an undeveloped dialectal mine, the Yue dialect in the Xi Jiang River Valley widens our vision with its lexical and grammatical features. Compared with Cantonese in Guangfu Subgroup, it shows more ancient evidences in lexicon system, some words reflect earlier pronunciational features, and this dialect demonstrates closer relationship with Neoteric Mandarin, Ancient Baiyue Language and Min Dialect. The author of this thesis discusses the strong word-building ability of some affixes, different systems of pronouns and auxiliary words, and delicate diversities in word orders.Read More
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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