A Study On Character-Words Of Lanzhou Dialect

The study on Character-Words of dialect is a contrastive study on modern Chinese dialect lexicon, which belongs to the research category of dialectology. It is an important research result of the dialect study from the glossary study angle in the last few years. Although the Lanzhou dialect vocabulary study has achieved fruitful results since 1980 s, the study on its collation and comparison is rare. Therefore, a further in-depth research in terms of its internal classification and external comparisons is needed.This paper, by using Mr. Li Rulong’ Theory of Characteristic Phrases in Dialects as guidance, we collected data and conducted supplementary survey based on its two judgment criteria. By extracting, stratifying and grading a total of 210 such words according to certain standards. This paper is divided into five parts:In the first part we have an overview in which the geographical location, the dialect categories and a summary of the Lanzhou dialect are respectively introduced.In the second part the Lanzhou dialect is analyzed and summarized mainly from the word-formation and color meaning. These are different as well as unique from Mandarin and are owned only by Lanzhou dialect.In the third part those dialect characteristic phrases are examined both synchronically and diachronically. In the synchronic test we pay attention to properties of words and phonological structure, in the diachronic test we divide those characteristic phrases into the heritage words, innovation words and variation words. The results show that a close relationship exists between Sichuan dialect and official Mandarin.