"Quantity" is an important cognitive category for people to understand and represent the world.On the basis of people’s quantitative processing and various means of various factors in the objective world,the quantitative category of the language world,that is,the semantic category,is finally formed.Thus,cognitive categories form semantic categories through linguisticization.There are various quantities in the language system,such as the quantity of things,the quantity of space occupation,the quantity of time,the quantity of action change,the quantity of degree,etc.The quantity of things is mainly expressed by the nouns of quantity of things,which have the meaning of space;the events often contain the quantity of time and the quantity of actions,and the verbs mainly express the behavior of actions,which have the meaning of time;the properties of things often contain the measure of degree,expressed chiefly by adjectives,having a degree of meaning.This paper mainly makes a systematic study on the quantitative category of Yushe dialect.The paper is divided into seven chapters,as follows:The first chapter is an introduction,which briefly introduces the geography,history and dialect of Yushe County,this paper sorts out the present research situation of Mandarin,dialect and Yushe dialect,and explains the content,significance,theory and method of this paper.The second to seventh chapters are the main body of the thesis,which mainly explores the grammatical form from the semantic point of view,and makes a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the various forms of the expression of the Yushe dialect’s quantitative category,this paper discusses the sub-categories of matter quantity,space quantity,time quantity,action quantity,degree quantity and subjective quantity.The quantity of things in Yushe dialect is mainly expressed by means of individual quantifiers,collective quantifiers,reduplication of quantifiers,demonstrative pronouns+些,quantifiers +把 etc.Spatial quantity refers to measuring the proportion of things from the spatial dimension.The Yushe dialect mainly describes the category of spatial quantity through quantifiers of table space quantity,spatial quantification index words,distance methods,comparison methods and other special methods;Time quantity is a measure of the time occupied by actions,which includes time-point words and timemeasure words,and discusses the expression forms of long-time quantity and shorttime quantity respectively from the relative length of time quantity in Yushe dialect,the category of action quantity is mainly expressed by using special and borrowed momentum quantifiers.Meanwhile,the intensity,frequency and frequency of action are used to distinguish the category The measure of degree refers to the quantity of the nature state contained in things.Yushe dialect mainly uses the vivid form of adjectives,degree adverbs,reduplication,additional suffixes,demonstrative pronoun +地 and other special construction to express the level of the measure of degree The subjective quantity is relative to the objective quantity,Yushe dialect usually expresses the subjective evaluation of the quantity by the way of quantity mark,adverb mark,sentence end mark,and so on.The epilogue makes a further summary of the full text,summarizes the innovative points of this study,and in the light of the deficiencies in the study,puts forward the direction and focus of future research,hoping to provide some reference for the study of Yushe dialect. |