Research On Zhen’an Miliang Dialect Grammar

Zhen’ an county is located in the southwest corner of Shaanxi Province, it is under the jurisdiction of Shangluo city. It is 98 km away from xi’ an, the capital of Shaanxi Province. Zhen’ an enjoys the reputation of the “township of the Chinese chestnuts” and“natural pharmacy store”.Zhen’ an county is one of the most concentrated area of immigrant in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The immigration of Ming dynasty mainly comes from the north, like the center of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and so on, they distribute in the east of Zhen’ an; the immigration of Qing dynasty is mainly come from the south, like Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi and so on, they distribute in the west of Zhen’ an. After the two large population flow in the history, a few native people live there while guest people takes up 80%-90%. Miliang town locates in the southeast of Zhen’ an; it is one of the highest concentrated township of immigrants. After a long exchange and integration, Miliang dialect formed its own unique characteristics.Miliang dialect is the research object and the thesis emphatically describes the distinctive superimposed, affix, special sentence patterns and physical category in Miliang dialect.The first part mainly introduces the humanistic geography of Miliang county, the population origin, the general situation of native dialect, the research object, research methods, the source of corpus, the style and the research status at home and abroad.The second part discusses the reduplication patterns. It introduces the rich variety of nouns, verbs, adjectives, quantifies and adverbs. Among them, the overlaps of nouns are AA zi/er, ABB er, AAB, AABB; the overlaps of verbs are ABB er, AABB, A dao A dao,AAB, ABAB; the overlaps of adjectives are AA er/zi, ABB, ABAB, AABB; the overlapsof quantifier are AA, AA er/zi; the overlaps of adverbs are AA er, AABB.The third part discusses the affix. The affix of the Miliang dialect is very rich and the suffixes-zi and er are used frequently; they have a wealth of grammatical function and meaning. In addition, many suffixes have local characteristics, like the prefix-lao,prefix-jing, suffix-tou, suffix-shou, suffix-huo, suffix-lao, suffix-de, suffix-huo.The fourth part discusses the sentence. It introduces four special sentence patterns,such as “Ba” structure, “Zai” and the relevant sentence patterns, “Dao” and the relevant sentence patterns, repeated questions. These sentences are used in high frequency; they have many characteristics different from mandarin.The fifth part mainly discusses the aspect system of Miliang dialect. It includes completed, start, continue, but will, first, already, etc. The article describes the grammatical form and grammatical meaning with large of examples.The paper uses Miliang dialect of Zhen’ an county as its subject matter, describing the part of local characteristics. In order to reveal the regularity of Miliang dialect’s grammar, the author of the paper hopes to contribute to the research of dialect grammar in south of Shaanxi.