The Reference Grammar Of The Xishuangbanna Dai Language

Tailue language is the language of the Dai ethnic group which is in the Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Xishuangbanna,Yunnan Province,China.It is also one of the four major dialects in the Dai language of China and the population of using Tailue language is about 300,000.The Taikhen language which is distributed in the southeastern of Shan State of Myanmar,at the border of China,Myanmar,Laos and Thailand,related very closely to the Thaijon language and Thailue language in northern Thailand,the Laolue language in northern Laos and the Tailue language in Xishuangbanna,China.The four places still use the common Buddhist Scriptures(the old Tailue written language).There is still a shortage of the information on specialized,systematic study for Tailue language,and the way that using the framework of reference grammar to study Tailue language hasn't been found yet.This parper takes Tailue language:the Zhuang-Dai dialect of the Zhuang-dong language group of the Sino-Tibetan language family as research object,based on detailed and authentic language materials,the author makes use of modern linguistic theories such as field research,description and comparison and so on.The purpose is to highlight the“comprehensiveness","systemticness”,“microcosmic and original characterisics”reference grammar,to have a comprehensive,in-depth description and analysis of the grammatical structure in Xishuangbanna,s Tailue language.It provides a valuable reference for further research on the study of dialect and idiom at home and abroad.And provide more detailed language materials than before.At the same time,the study of reference grammar of Tailue language in Xishuangbanna can provide evidence for the.research about attribution of Dong-Tai language group,and it can also provide a real case about grammar.