Dry County Dialect Study

Mood is an important feature in Chinese, and it is also an important part of dialect grammar. Chinese modal particles has its own characteristics. Different dialects have their own modal particles systems.Through field investigation and corpus analysis, this thesis carefully described and analyzed the modal particles of Qianxian County Dialect. And it has summarized the features of the modal particles in Qianxian Dialect. In the preface the article describes the geographic situation, areas and history of Qianxian, and the initial consonants rhythmic entries and the tones of Qianxian Dialect. This thesis divided modal particles five categories. They are descriptive mood, interrogative mood, exclamatory mood, imperative mood and subjunctive mood. Through the use of conditions, the main characteristics and the functions of the modal particles, the thesis analyzed the similarities and differences of modal particles. The second chapter described the descriptive mood of Qianxian Dialect. Some modal particles like "Lie((咧),Jie((价),Nei(呢),Di(的),Me(么),Xie(些),Lai(来)''could express the descriptive mood. The third chapters described the interrogative mood of Qianxian Dialect. And we briefly discussed the type of Qianxian Dialect interrogative sentences. "O(哦),Xie止匕,Nie(捏),Ne(呢),Lie(咧)''could express the interrogative mood. The fourth chapter described the exclamatory mood of Qianxian Dialect. Some modal particles like"Ne呢),Zhao Ne(着呢),Dei(得),Dei Lai(得来),Dei Xie(得些),Me(么)"could express the exclamatory mood. Other ways like "Cai+Verb/Adj+others((才+动词/形容词+呢),Ba Zi Ju(把字句),Ze+ Verb/Adj(则+形/动),Jia Huo+others(家伙+其他)''could also express the exclamatory mood. The fifth chapter described the imperative mood of Qianxian Dialect. "Lai(来),Zhao(着),O(哦),Me(么),Xie(些),Hao+others(好+其他),Gei Zan+others(给咱+其他),Ba Zi Ju(把字句)''could also express the imperative mood. The sixth chapter described the subjunctive mood of Qianxian Dialect. The modal particles like"Xie(些),Tong(通),Zhao(着),Nie(捏),Qi(去),Me(么)''could express the subjunctive mood in Qianxian Dialect. In the seventh chapter we described the conjunction of modal particles. And we talked about seventeen use cases of Qianxian Dialect. At last, we summarized some features of the use of the modal particles in Qianxian Dialect.