Quantitative Investigation into the Folk Songs along the Yellow River Areas from the Perspective of the Community for Chinese Nation
In this article,authors aim at the lexical,syntactic and semantic analysis of the folk songs in 9 provinces along the Yellow River areas.Based on the interdisciplinary perspectives of Eco-linguistics,typology,quantitative linguis-tics and dependency grammar,the results yield a mixture of head-initial and head-final sequence on the syntactic level.Be-sides,a consistent theme of the folk songs in the 9 provinces demonstrates the correlation between the linguistic presenta-tions of the folk songs and their corresponding cultural and environmental influences.This interdisciplinary approach of-fers a new attempt to observe the development of language under ecological and cultural perspectives.
The Chinese NationThe Yellow River AreasThe Folk Songs along the Yellow River AreasSentence Order