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This dissertation aims to synchronically make a comprehensive and systematic study of Khato, a language of Yi Branch, Tibet-Burman Group on the basis of the description framework of reference grammar, mainly covering its phonological system, parts of speech and syntactic system. The dissertation consists of twelve chapters.Chapter One. Preface. As an introduction of the dissertation, it offers the designing of the present dissertation, covering the object, significance, specific research methods of the study,etc. A short description of the Khato-speaking nationality, a general presentation of the language itself, a brief picture of the present situation of language use of the nationality in question and a looking-back of past linguistic researches on the language are simultaneously covered.Chapter Two. Phonological System. This part is a description of the Khato phonological system. The main contents being consonants(initials), vowels(finals), tonic types and syllable canon. Phonological inflections and phonological processes including syllabic reduction, assimilation and tonic variations are also tentatively covered.Chapter Three. Full Words. This part is made up of seven sub-sections, foucusing on the parts of Full words of Khato, including noun, pronoun, numeral, quantifier, verb, adjective and adverb.Chapter Four. Empty Words. This part provides the parts of Empty words of Khato, including conjunction, particle, and interjection repectively. Each section is a general description of the grammatical features of each part of speech, with special attention to their grammatical functions and peculiar syntactic behaviors, if any.Chapter Five. Phrasal Structure. In this part, the phrasal structure of Khato is divided into eight categories, of which the syntactic relations are mentioned.Chapter Six. Syntactic Constituent. The syntactic constituents in sentences of Khato are approached both from syntactic and semantic ways.Chapter Seven. Simple Sentences. The dissertation goes all the way through simple clause types .Chapter Eight. Complex Sentences. Full description on the complex sentences of the target language from the viewpoint of the semantic relations.Chapter Nine. Syntactic Mood. This chapter gives a full description on declarative sentences, interrogative sentences, exclamatory sentence and imperative sentence from the form, tone and semantic perspective.Chapter Ten. The Specific Syntactic Types. This chapter makes an in-depth analysis on the study of six syntactic structure types, including topic clause, existential clause, relative clause,comparative clause,etc.Chapter Eleven. Word-building. This part is a presentation of word-building process of the language. The main contents being compounding and affixation, Semantic relations, loans(mainly from Chinese)of the language.Chapter Twelve. Conclusion. This chapter includes a brief overview of the main points of the dissertation, innovation, inadequate research as well as future research directions.It is strongly wished that the present study will be helpful to the further research of the language and beneficial to the contrastive research and typological study of the Sino-Tibetan Family.