A Reference Grammar Of ZuoZhou Zhuang

In this thesis,Zuo Zhou Zhuang,a dialect of Tai branch,Zhuang-Dong group,Kam-Tai language family,as the object of study,using the theory and framework of linguistic typology,taking into account the method of historical comparative linguistics,ZuoZhou zhuang,ZuoZhou Town,JiangZhou District of Chongzuo City,grammatical structure and characteristics of a comprehensive,systematic and in-depth description and analysis.The full text is divided into nine chapters.Each chapter describes the morphology and syntax as an interrelated whole.The first chapter mainly introduces the ChongZuo and the use of language,the Zhuang language of the current research and the topic source,research purpose,the theoretical framework and corpus collection.The second chapter focuses on the syllable structure and tone system of ZuoZhou Zhuang.The third chapter describes the word formation of ZuoZhou Zhuang,discussed by two categories about simple words and compound words,and briefly introduces the method about synthesis,additional and overlapping of compound words.The fourth chapter is word class,including open word class about nouns,verbs,adjectives and closed word about pronouns,classifiers,numerals,prepositions and adverbs.The fifth chapter is about aspect marking,describes seven typical aspect marking of ZuoZhou Zhuang.The sixth chapter introduces simple sentence,first introduced the basic word order,followed by the introduction of interrogative sentences,passive sentences,SVCs,comparative sentences.The seventh chapter studies complex sentence and compound sentence of ZuoZhou Zhuang,has discussed the complement clause(including subject clause,object clause and predicative clause),adverbial clauses,relative clauses and compound sentences.The eighth chapter reviews the focus,innovation and shortcomingsof this thesis.The ninth chapter gives an appendix about long corpus.