Linzi Dialect

In recent years, with the in-depth study of Chinese, the close contact and communication between Chinese and other linguistic circles in the world, and with the appeal from experts in all fields and attention from government, the research on Chinese dialects has been attached more and more importance. This constitutes an academic situation with a much extended research field, multi-dimensional perspective and various research means. 'Salvage of the dialects' has become the common aspiration of both the government and academia alike.Linzi, the capital of Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, has abundant historical deposits and culture connotations. Linzi is located on the dividing line of two different dialect zones: eastern and western. The study on the dialect in Linzi is doubtlessly of great significance. This dissertation focuses on modal particles in the Linzi dialect. The study method used is a combination of Mandarian Chinese dialects and ancient Chinese. This dissertation has researched the forms of modal particles in ancient Chinese, as well as in Mandarin Chinese and other dialects.The dissertation is divided into five chapters.Chapter One Introduction. After a brief introduction on the background of Linzi dialect, the modal particles are defined from a totally new perspective: modal particles and bound morphemes are the largest and smallest grammatical units, respectively. Modal particles, therefore, cannot be classified in a static unit. Based on this, they are analyzed and defined by grammatical function rather than meaning. Thus, a suitable operating mechanism is constructed, which makes it possible to identify the them from their forms. The linguistic segments in the static unit cannot be added with modal particles, while those with modal particles cannot be classified into the static unit. The dissertation concludes that '的' and '了' in Mandarin Chinese are would-be modal particles by the defining method. It also refers to the minor sentence as the object following the verb. The verbs can be classified into three groups: '顾', '相信' and '看', based on whether the minor sentence can follow modal particles and the kind of modal particle. The grammatical function of these three groups is different in many aspects. The identification of them in this chapter is a completely novel approach in classification. Some shortcomings are unavoidable; therefore, the writer sincerely expects your comment or criticism to further improve the theoretical understanding.Chapter Two The would-be modal particles. Would-be modal particles have certain structural functions and can be classified into some larger linguistic segments.