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The dissertation makes a comprehensive and systematic study of synchronicallyDu'an Zhuang language, a language of Tai Branch, Kam-Tai languages, on the basisof modern language theories of reference grammar and the field work made by theauthor. It consists of eleven chapters.Chapter one,Preface.It makes a brief introduction of the dissertation. It explainsthe study object, the data sources, the significance of the research,the theory andmethodology of this study.It also giving a review of the past linguistic researches onthe Zhuang language. The general nationality information of Zhuang and the presentsituation of language using are also given in this chapter.Chapter two,it describes the phonetic system of the language, consists of vowels,consonants and tones. It also gives an analysis of sound changes in this chapter.Chapter three,it describes the vocabulary, consists of the main characters ofvocabulary, the source language and process of loaded words, an analysis ofhomophony, discreteness and semantic relations.Chapter four,it mainly analysis the basic types of word-building of the Du'anZhuang language.Chapter five,it observes the word-class of the Du'an Zhuang language. Thedissertation divides the vocabulary into ten word-classes, and describes the syntaxcharacters of each word-class. The gender and number of nouns;the tense, voice,aspect and transitivity of verbs; and the special characters of adjectives are theemphases of this chapter.Chapter six,it mainly describes the eight types of phrases of the Zhuanglanguage.The relationships of the former item and the back item within the samephrases are the emphases.Chapter seven,it describes the six syntactic components, including the subject,predicate, object, attributive,adverbial and complement. The emphases is put on theconstitution of the six syntactic constituents.Chapter eight,it is of the simple clause. Firstly, it explains the types and thesignificance of the word order.Then the dissertation maily decscribes ninesyntactic structures, including the subject-predication sentences,the causativesentences,the passive sentences, the comparative sentences, the thematicsentences,the negative sentences and the existential or possessive sentences,etc。The chapter nine,it describes the complex clause. According to the logic andsemantic, the complex clauses are divided into coordinate sentences and subordinatesentences.Then the various connective relations are made an in-depth analysis.Chapter ten,it describes the format and the mood of different sentences,including declarative sentences, interrogative sentences,imperative sentences andexclamatory sentences。Chapter eleven, it draws a conclusion of the dissertation, listing the emphases,themain ideas,the progress made in the dissertation,the possible errors and the directionfor further study.This dissertation makes an important observation on the Du'an Zhuang language. Firstly, as an degenerate language, it also is the language used by the largest minority,the study is of great significance. Secondly, this dissertation is propitious to thefurther study of the Du'an Zhuang language, such as the language changes under theinfluence of language contact. It is also expected that the dissertation will be useful tothe studies of the minority language research in China.