The Semantic Evolution of Verb “Sit” in Southwest Mandarin

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10.2991/assehr.k.220131.177How to use a DOI?

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Southwest Mandarin; “Sit”; Semantic Evolution

Abstract

With the opening up of commercial ports in riverside cities such as Chongqing more than one hundred years ago, many Western missionaries gradually went deep into Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan areas and compiled several local language textbooks for later generations, which also provided valuable materials for dialect scholars to study Southwest Mandarin a hundred years ago. The author specifically analyzes on the basis of spoken examples in books written in West Sichuan dialects and Sichuan dialects dictionary, as well as in the four major administrative regions of Chongqing Yubei District, Guizhou Yunyan District, Chengdu Qingyang District, and Kunming Panlong District, China, and seeks to clearly dissect the pragmatic full picture of the verb “sit” in southwestern languages, using the “lexical semantic dynamic pattern” to interrogate its semantic changes over the centuries. The interpretation and usage of the word “sit” not only changes with the historical changes in Southwest China, but also influences the investigation and research of modern Chinese lexicology to a certain extent.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiaoni Hu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/02/01
TI  - The Semantic Evolution of Verb “Sit” in Southwest Mandarin
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 977
EP  - 987
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220131.177
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220131.177
ID  - Hu2022
ER  -