Researching On Grammar Of Zhenyuan's Dialect

Zhenyuan County locates at the north west of Qingyang area in Gansu Province,the total area is 3760 square kilometers,the population is more than 500 thousands.Itseast is Qingcheng County at Xifeng area,the west meets Pengyang County in Ningxiaautonomous region, the south closes to Jingchuan County,Kongtong area at Pingliangcity, the north depends on Huan County Presently,it governs 7 towns,12 townships:Chengguan Town,Tunzi Town,Mengba Town,Sancha Town,Pingquan Town,KaibianTown,Taiping Town,Linjing Township,Nanchuan Township,Shangxiao Township,Xinji Township,Fangshan Township,Yinjiacheng Township,Maqu Township,MiaoquTownship,Wugou Township,GuoyuanTownship,Zhongyuan Township,XinchengTownship.It's dialect belongs to Qinlong piece at the area south of Yellow RiverMandarin.Zhenyuan dialect's phonetic system:It has 24 initial consonants (including zeroinitial),32 finals,4 intonations (except Light intonation),They are"first tone31,secondtone24,rising tone53,falling tone33"(take the county dialect as the standard ).Becauseof geographical environment,it divides Zhenyuan county into the plain region and themountainous area,the plain region intonation is consistent with the county words into-nation,the mountainous area intonation differs from the plain region's intonation (San-cha town,Maqu township,Miaoqu township,Xinji Township,Fangshan Township andYinjiacheng township),they are"first tone212,second tone24,rising tone53,fallingtone33".Zhenyuan dialect's grammar system:Zhenyuan dialect's grammar system is con-sistent with the area south of Yellow River Mandarin in general,but also it has owngrammar characteristic too.The present paper has recorded some Zhenyuan dialect'sgrammar characteristics,respectively is:The verb suffix (yi xia),overlap,thepronoun,the auxiliary("xie","lai","open","escape"and so on), modal particle("jia","mer na"),the quantifier ("ge","gen"),preposition, conjunction,the handlingtype,the pro and con interrogative sentence,the passive sentence,comparative sentenceand so on.Using research technique such as the descriptive linguistics,the contrastivelinguistics,history linguistics and so on,the article has made systemtic investigation and record about Zhenyuan different towns'dialect.it analyzes Zhenyuan dialect'sgrammar objectively,compares Zhenyuan dialect with the standard spokenChinese,discovers its some grammar characteristics.This research will provide thefirst-hand information to dialects.It will play certain research role to study Mandarinas to Zhenyuan people too.