The Study On Tense And Aspect In Neijiang Dialect

Neijiang City is located in the southeastern of Sichuan Province.Most of the area in Neijiang and the majority of Zigong City form the Jianggong dialect.As the dialect which is less affected by the history of the migration of “Huguang people fill Sichuan” of Ming and Qing Dynasties,the Jianggong dialect has some unique dialect features.We conducted a dialect survey on Baima Town,Shizhong District,Neijiang City,and compiled the phonetic system of Neijiang dialect and collected dialect corpus to study the tense and aspect characteristics of Neijiang dialect.We divided the Neijiang dialect into two parts: the tense system and the aspect system.Aspect system is divided into imperfect aspect and perfective aspect.The perfective aspect is divided into perfectus,reality aspect,experience aspect and transitory.The imperfect aspect is divided into start aspect,continuous aspect and pre-temporal aspect.We focus on the depict of the aspect system of Neijiang dialect,and the depict of the tense system is relatively simple.Compared with the reference time,the tense system can be divided into the procedural time,the current time and the later time.In Neijiang dialect,the tense system is expressed by lexical means.We divide it into three parts: time noun,time adverb and modal verb.Owing to the quite differences of vocabulary in each dialect area,there are more obvious dialect characteristics.The relationship between the tense and aspect is complex,so we have to discriminate the meaning of the aspect.Distinguishing the similarities and differences between different aspect marks in the same aspect,comparing the similarities and differences of similar or identical aspect marks between different aspect,and discriminating the differences between Neijiang dialect and other dialect areas and even Mandarin.Finally,we define the relationship between the tense and the aspect.They are different from each other and cooperate with each other.