A Study On The Syntactic Evolution Of Word Order In Wenzhou Dialect Over The Last Hundred Years

This dissertation analyzes the Gospel of Mark(1894),the Gospel of John(1894),and the Gospel of Luke(1894)as the main sources for textual analysis,and examines three grammatical phenomena in the literature,namely,small sentence order,differential clause,and degree adverb,in both common time and time.The Bible translated by missionaries is chosen to be compared with the official Bible translation and the textbook of Wenzhou dialect written at the same period from the co-temporal level.In the diachronic comparison,extra-territorial documents of Wenzhou dialect more than a hundred years ago and the present-day Wenzhou dialect corpus are selected,thus forming a temporal chain to analyze the commonalities and differences existing between the Wenzhou dialect a hundred years ago and the present-day Wenzhou dialect in order to observe the evolution of syntactic structure over time.In the topic of sentence orders in Wenzhou dialect,a study of the syntactic position of the patient as an object,It is found that in Wenzhou dialect a hundred years ago,there is a relationship between the patient preposition and the complexity of the syntactic semantics and predicate structure that act as the nominal component of the subject.Patient with definite and generic references tend to be prepositioned,the constrains after the verb forces the patient to be brought forward,and the completion marker "Yao" also causes the patient to be brought to the front.In the topic of comparative sentences,the comparative sentences in the Wenzhou extraterritorial literature can be summarized as "A+ guo+ biao+B" and "A+ biao+guo+B",that is "Bi-sentence" and "Si-sentence"."Bi-sentence" have flourished in Wenzhou dialect more than a hundred years ago,squeeze the existing space of“Si-sentence”.Although "Si-sentence" has weakened over the centuries,due to the stable structure and high frequency of spoken language,it has not completely disappeared,actives in the spoken Wenzhou dialect with the combination of "duo si" and "da si".In the topic of of degree adverb,the syntactic position of degree adverb in the literature is emphatically discussed.It is found the high-level adverbs "xian" have been stably expressed as postpositional adverbs for more than a hundred years;The extreme degree adverb "ding" and the high degree degree adverb "shen" are affected by the word order of Mandarin,and both appear either before or after.In today’s Wenzhou dialect,"ding" appears stably before the modifier,and "shen" appears steadily after the modifier.By examining the syntactic phenomena related to word order in Wenzhou’s extraterritorial documents,it can be found that although the extraterritorial documents have the problem of heterozygosity,after careful screening,pure and authentic dialect spoken expressions can still be used for the study of the evolution.