Muyongpianmiao dialect belongs to miao dialect of Sichuan,Guizhou and Yunnan sub-dialect.Through a compre-hensive description and analysis of the categories and syntactic functions of the positional nouns in Moyongpianmiao dialect,it is found that the simple locative nouns in Muyongpianmiao dialect can only be placed before the reference objects.Compound locative nouns can only be placed after the reference object to indicate whether the object is perpendicular to the speaker's position,as well as the vis-ibility,direction,position of the object.The conditions under which simple locative nouns and compound locative nouns act as syn-tactic components are different.The former must follow the combination rules with nouns,demonstrative words,quantifiers,quanti-tative phrases,pronouns,and prepositions in order to enter sentences or contexts as syntactic components;The latter is relatively free.
Muyongpianmiao DialectLocative NounsSyntactic Function