Abstract
The Tongchuan district of Dazhou is located in the east of Sichuan province where the dialect belongs to Chengdu-Chongqing area of the southwestern Mandarin.Through the investigation and analysis, we found that the pronunciation, the meaning and grammatical features of Tongchuan dialect word De are quite different from those of Chengdu-Chongqing area of the southwestern Mandarin and common language. In Tongchuan dialect, the pronunciation, the meaning and the parts of speech of “De” with high usage rate are different. Moreover, the sentence pattern choice is very flexible, and the sentence pattern is diversified.We analyze the meaning of pronunciation and grammatical phenomenon of De, which aims to show its distinctive regional characteristics, and preliminarily reveal the lexical meaning and grammatical functions of its different parts of speech and various sentence pattern.
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