The Research On Southern Lujiang Dialect In Anhui Province

Southern Lujiang dialect mainly refers to the dialects of some towns in the south and southwest of Lujiang County. It belongs to Hongchao sub-dialect of Jianghuai dialect, which consists of 22 initials, 47 finals and 6 kinds of tones.The paper takes the approaches of inquiry, depiction, statistics, comparison and analysis to reveal the phonetic, lexical and grammatical features of the Southern Lujiang dialect.About phonetics: A detailed analysis of the phonology of the Southern Lujiang dialect is placed in the frame of structuralism and historical comparative linguistics. The synchronic features of the initials, finals and tones of the dialect are presented respectively. Furthermore, some unique phenomena of the initials and finals are discussed in an attempt to interpret some phonetic changes.About lexicon: The paper includes the comparison of the lexicon of the Southern Lujiang dialect to that of the common language and to the character-words of the vicinity dialects (Wu dialects and Gan dialects). The comparison with the common language reveals some features of the Southern Lujiang dialect's lexicon in meaning and structure.The comparison with the character-words of the two vicinity dialects reveals the relationship of the Southern Lujiang dialect with them.About grammar: The paper chooses two branches of the Southern Lujiang dialect grammar system: morphology and syntax. Morphology mainly introduces the usages of affix and pronoun . Syntax describes and analyses three special sentence patterns: the character of "把", the passive voice tag "着" and the disjunctive question sentence in the Southern Lujiang dialect.