Han Tibetan Tetrasyllabic Word Study

Taken the tetrasyllabic words of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (add. as Sino-Tibetan languages in the text ) as the research subject, the current dissertation presents a description of the general and special characters of the tetrasyllabic words of the Sino-Tibetan languages, also explains the interior motive and exterior influence of its' origination and development. The research found it is common that the Sino-Tibetan languages have tetrasyllabic words, and (this words) show the high consistency feature. The consistency is not originated from the common characters of the primitive Sino-Tibetan languages, but respectively formed and developed in their own language system. So the author holds that the tetrasyllabic words of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages are the results of different language types' interaction. The dissertation comprises of five chapters.Chapter One. Preface. This chapter defines the subject of the study and explains its significance, states the literature review of the tetrasyllabic words research in Chinese and non-Chinese, expounds the difficulties and innovations of the current research, and, furthermore, the research methods and corpus resources.Chapter Two. The tetrasyllabic words of Chinese language. The synchronic description explains that the Chinese tetrasyllabic words is defined as a special language unit in the form of structural and semantic lexicalization which functions as a word, although it is presented in different forms and structures. The chronic observation in this chapter shows the traits of its evolution and development. The Chinese tetrasyllabic words originated in the Qin Dynasty, the literature of which served as main resources for the formation of the Chinese tetrasyllabic words in the subsequent centuries. In the Wejin & Nanbei Dynasty, the number of the fixed forms of the tetrasyllabic words greatly exceeded those of the prior period. The tetrasyllabic words in the Tang Dynastyexhibited its character of diversity, compared with those of the prior dynasties. The Song & Yuan Dynasty saw its prosperity that served as its salient characters. The Ming & Qing Dynasties is an important period for the development of the modern Chinese, during which the modern Chinese went into a stable state for its development. The research also shows that the Chinese tetrasyllabic words have been developing in two ways, especially the latter one: word-formation through morphological strategies and word-formation through grammatical strategies.Chapter Three. Non-Chinese tetrasyllabic words in the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. Through the description of the 34 Non-Chinese tetrasyllabic words in the Sino-Tibetan languages, one can find the diversity, complication and unbalance features of the language type of the whole language family. Most of the languages of the Tibeto-Burman group have abundant tetrasyllabic words, and have hardly influenced by the languages belongs to the same group as Chinese. They completely kept the inherit tetrasyllabic words of themselves. The tetrasyllabic words of Miao-Yao group and the Zhuang-Dong group share the same characters of phonetics form and structure feature, which have little difference from Chinese. As a whole, the tetrasyllabic words of Non-Chinese languages have their own way of the origination, development and evolution. However, till now we have not found the genetics relation. The relation is just like the Typology way.Chapter Four. The generality and peculiarity of the tetrasyllabic words of the Sino-Tibetan language. This chapter discusses the language type consistency of the tetrasyllabic words of the Sino-Tibetan language in the phonetics type, grammar structure and semantics trait. The consistency is like: the phonetics type is mostly like ABAC, AABB ABCD; the grammar structure is mainly parallel and the semantics trait is mainly descriptive. However, the different language has its' own peculiarity that is the unsymmetrical distribution of the phonological type, the complexity of the grammatical function and the diversity of the...