Research On Meixian Dialect Grammar

The Meixian dialect, which shows the main characteristics of Hakkas dialect, has 16 initial consonants, 72 compound vowels and 6 tones.This article mainly described the word-formation and the syntax that can mostly demonstrate the grammatical characteristics of Meixian dialect. The word-formation includes the overlapping type and the attachment one. The author analyses the overlapping form in noun, adjective, verb, numeral, classifier measure word, onomatopoeia and so on and its semantic characteristic and grammatical function, and introduces the usage of affix such as "A" (阿) , "Lao" (老) , "Cheng"(成) , "Lun" (论) , "Da" (打) , "Ai" (欸) and so on in attachment type, and analyses the structural features and the concrete usage of the"handling" sentence, passive sentence, the object preposition sentence, comparative sentence, "have" sentence and "add words" sentence.Comparing with other Hakkas dialect and the relative historical materials of Chinese diachronically, we can undetstand the main characteristics of Meixian dialect in grammar...