The Semantic Evolution of Verb “Sit” in Southwest Mandarin

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