The Study Of Modal Particles In Longquan Dialect

This paper takes modal particles in Longquan dialect as the main research object to conduct a systematic study via the method of describing and comparing. This paper is. This paper is divided into six chapters:The first chapter is introduction, primarily describes the geography and history of Longquan city as well as its dialect, summarizes the research outcomes of Longquan and its neighboring courtiers’dialect, then indicates the overview of mandarin and modal particles. This paper also demonstrates the research purpose, relatively significance, methodology, resources and symbol explanation.Chapter two to chapter four respectively describes the modality particle, condition modal particle and query modal particle in longquan dialect, also figure out differences among these modal particles. Furthermore, this paper through comparing to mandarin to recognize relatively differences. Modality particle is such vocabulary can be used to show certain type of subjective attitudes or emotions. There are eleven modality particles in Longquan dialect, respectively are Ge (嗰)、A (啊)、Ga (噶)、 Nuo (喏)、Na (呐)、Lei (嘞)、Ei (诶)、Li (哩)、Guo (啯). SiBa (是 罢)、Bei (呗). Among them, A (啊)、Nuo (喏), Bei (呗) can be used as paused particle within a sentence in Longquan dialect. Condition modal particle can objectively demonstrate what happened in reality, can be used to describe whether the event happen or not, occur or not, exist or not. There are three condition modal particles in Longquan dialect, which are Lao (唠)、Ba (罢)、Bo(啵). Query modal particle is responsible for deliver the interrogative message to others, also has the suspect and interrogational function. In Longquan dialect, Fa ((?))、Ha (哈)、Lei (嘞)、 Huo (嚯) can be called query modal particle.Chapter five indicates the combinational rule of modal particles in Longquan dialect, which can be divided into two modal particles combination, three modal particles combination; modal particles and negative adverb "Wei(未)’"combination. By comparing, the remarkable characteristic is condition modal particle contains the highest combinational ability, and always locates in front of others. Modal particles can be located either in front of "Wei(未)" or behind the "Wei(未)", while the representative meaning will be different when the location is different.In the conclusion, this paper summarizes the systematic characteristics of modal particles in Longquan dialect as well as indicates the innovations and weaknesses of this paper.