The Case Mark Form of Qilian Dialect in Qinghai Province
Although the dialect of Qilian County,located in the northeast of Qinghai Province,belongs to Chinese Central Plain Mandarin,it exhibits a series of influences from Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,including false,adherent,and fixed elements.Based on survey data,this paper describes and analyzes seven types of case markers in the Qilian dialect:the object case,the dative case,the position case,the cong case,the Zhi case,the Buerge case,and the instrumental-adjoint case.The use of these case markers may involve ellipsis or the co-occurrence of case markers and prepositions.