The suffixes of Gan dialects in Ji'an, in the middle of Jiangxi Province, are not only affluent, but also characteristic in their type. On the basis of sufficient materials collected from many locations, and according to the affixes' degree in grammaticalization, performance in compound-derivation, character in the phonics, the common suffixes of Gan dialects in Ji'an can be divided into the following types: typical-suffix and quasi-suffix. This thesis describes and analyzes the common suffixes of Gan Dialects in Ji'an systematically, trying to figure out their types of synchronic and diachronic changes.
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