diff --git a/datafusion-examples/README.md b/datafusion-examples/README.md
index dbc8050555b9a..7ca90463cf8c7 100644
--- a/datafusion-examples/README.md
+++ b/datafusion-examples/README.md
@@ -42,36 +42,37 @@ cargo run --example csv_sql
 
 ## Single Process
 
+- [`advanced_udaf.rs`](examples/advanced_udaf.rs): Define and invoke a more complicated User Defined Aggregate Function (UDAF)
+- [`advanced_udf.rs`](examples/advanced_udf.rs): Define and invoke a more complicated User Defined Scalar Function (UDF)
+- [`advanced_udwf.rs`](examples/advanced_udwf.rs): Define and invoke a more complicated User Defined Window Function (UDWF)
 - [`avro_sql.rs`](examples/avro_sql.rs): Build and run a query plan from a SQL statement against a local AVRO file
+- [`catalog.rs`](examples/catalog.rs): Register the table into a custom catalog
 - [`csv_sql.rs`](examples/csv_sql.rs): Build and run a query plan from a SQL statement against a local CSV file
 - [`csv_sql_streaming.rs`](examples/csv_sql_streaming.rs): Build and run a streaming query plan from a SQL statement against a local CSV file
-- [`catalog.rs`](examples/catalog.rs): Register the table into a custom catalog
 - [`custom_datasource.rs`](examples/custom_datasource.rs): Run queries against a custom datasource (TableProvider)
-- [`dataframe.rs`](examples/dataframe.rs): Run a query using a DataFrame against a local parquet file
 - [`dataframe-to-s3.rs`](examples/external_dependency/dataframe-to-s3.rs): Run a query using a DataFrame against a parquet file from s3 and writing back to s3
-- [`dataframe_output.rs`](examples/dataframe_output.rs): Examples of methods which write data out from a DataFrame
+- [`dataframe.rs`](examples/dataframe.rs): Run a query using a DataFrame against a local parquet file
 - [`dataframe_in_memory.rs`](examples/dataframe_in_memory.rs): Run a query using a DataFrame against data in memory
+- [`dataframe_output.rs`](examples/dataframe_output.rs): Examples of methods which write data out from a DataFrame
 - [`deserialize_to_struct.rs`](examples/deserialize_to_struct.rs): Convert query results into rust structs using serde
 - [`expr_api.rs`](examples/expr_api.rs): Create, execute, simplify and analyze `Expr`s
 - [`flight_sql_server.rs`](examples/flight/flight_sql_server.rs): Run DataFusion as a standalone process and execute SQL queries from JDBC clients
 - [`function_factory.rs`](examples/function_factory.rs): Register `CREATE FUNCTION` handler to implement SQL macros
 - [`make_date.rs`](examples/make_date.rs): Examples of using the make_date function
 - [`memtable.rs`](examples/memtable.rs): Create an query data in memory using SQL and `RecordBatch`es
-- [`pruning.rs`](examples/parquet_sql.rs): Use pruning to rule out files based on statistics
 - [`parquet_sql.rs`](examples/parquet_sql.rs): Build and run a query plan from a SQL statement against a local Parquet file
 - [`parquet_sql_multiple_files.rs`](examples/parquet_sql_multiple_files.rs): Build and run a query plan from a SQL statement against multiple local Parquet files
+- [`pruning.rs`](examples/parquet_sql.rs): Use pruning to rule out files based on statistics
 - [`query-aws-s3.rs`](examples/external_dependency/query-aws-s3.rs): Configure `object_store` and run a query against files stored in AWS S3
 - [`query-http-csv.rs`](examples/query-http-csv.rs): Configure `object_store` and run a query against files vi HTTP
 - [`regexp.rs`](examples/regexp.rs): Examples of using regular expression functions
 - [`rewrite_expr.rs`](examples/rewrite_expr.rs): Define and invoke a custom Query Optimizer pass
-- [`to_char.rs`](examples/to_char.rs): Examples of using the to_char function
-- [`to_timestamp.rs`](examples/to_timestamp.rs): Examples of using to_timestamp functions
-- [`simple_udf.rs`](examples/simple_udf.rs): Define and invoke a User Defined Scalar Function (UDF)
-- [`advanced_udf.rs`](examples/advanced_udf.rs): Define and invoke a more complicated User Defined Scalar Function (UDF)
 - [`simple_udaf.rs`](examples/simple_udaf.rs): Define and invoke a User Defined Aggregate Function (UDAF)
-- [`advanced_udaf.rs`](examples/advanced_udaf.rs): Define and invoke a more complicated User Defined Aggregate Function (UDAF)
+- [`simple_udf.rs`](examples/simple_udf.rs): Define and invoke a User Defined Scalar Function (UDF)
 - [`simple_udfw.rs`](examples/simple_udwf.rs): Define and invoke a User Defined Window Function (UDWF)
-- [`advanced_udwf.rs`](examples/advanced_udwf.rs): Define and invoke a more complicated User Defined Window Function (UDWF)
+- [`sql_dialect.rs`](examples/sql_dialect.rs): Example of implementing a custom SQL dialect on top of `DFParser`
+- [`to_char.rs`](examples/to_char.rs): Examples of using the to_char function
+- [`to_timestamp.rs`](examples/to_timestamp.rs): Examples of using to_timestamp functions
 
 ## Distributed
 
diff --git a/datafusion-examples/examples/sql_dialect.rs b/datafusion-examples/examples/sql_dialect.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..259f38216b807
--- /dev/null
+++ b/datafusion-examples/examples/sql_dialect.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+
+use std::fmt::Display;
+
+use datafusion::error::Result;
+use datafusion_sql::{
+    parser::{CopyToSource, CopyToStatement, DFParser, Statement},
+    sqlparser::{keywords::Keyword, parser::ParserError, tokenizer::Token},
+};
+
+/// This example demonstrates how to use the DFParser to parse a statement in a custom way
+///
+/// This technique can be used to implement a custom SQL dialect, for example.
+#[tokio::main]
+async fn main() -> Result<()> {
+    let mut my_parser =
+        MyParser::new("COPY source_table TO 'file.fasta' STORED AS FASTA")?;
+
+    let my_statement = my_parser.parse_statement()?;
+
+    match my_statement {
+        MyStatement::DFStatement(s) => println!("df: {}", s),
+        MyStatement::MyCopyTo(s) => println!("my_copy: {}", s),
+    }
+
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+/// Here we define a Parser for our new SQL dialect that wraps the existing `DFParser`
+struct MyParser<'a> {
+    df_parser: DFParser<'a>,
+}
+
+impl MyParser<'_> {
+    fn new(sql: &str) -> Result<Self> {
+        let df_parser = DFParser::new(sql)?;
+        Ok(Self { df_parser })
+    }
+
+    /// Returns true if the next token is `COPY` keyword, false otherwise
+    fn is_copy(&self) -> bool {
+        matches!(
+            self.df_parser.parser.peek_token().token,
+            Token::Word(w) if w.keyword == Keyword::COPY
+        )
+    }
+
+    /// This is the entry point to our parser -- it handles `COPY` statements specially
+    /// but otherwise delegates to the existing DataFusion parser.
+    pub fn parse_statement(&mut self) -> Result<MyStatement, ParserError> {
+        if self.is_copy() {
+            self.df_parser.parser.next_token(); // COPY
+            let df_statement = self.df_parser.parse_copy()?;
+
+            if let Statement::CopyTo(s) = df_statement {
+                Ok(MyStatement::from(s))
+            } else {
+                Ok(MyStatement::DFStatement(Box::from(df_statement)))
+            }
+        } else {
+            let df_statement = self.df_parser.parse_statement()?;
+            Ok(MyStatement::from(df_statement))
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+enum MyStatement {
+    DFStatement(Box<Statement>),
+    MyCopyTo(MyCopyToStatement),
+}
+
+impl Display for MyStatement {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        match self {
+            MyStatement::DFStatement(s) => write!(f, "{}", s),
+            MyStatement::MyCopyTo(s) => write!(f, "{}", s),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl From<Statement> for MyStatement {
+    fn from(s: Statement) -> Self {
+        Self::DFStatement(Box::from(s))
+    }
+}
+
+impl From<CopyToStatement> for MyStatement {
+    fn from(s: CopyToStatement) -> Self {
+        if s.stored_as == Some("FASTA".to_string()) {
+            Self::MyCopyTo(MyCopyToStatement::from(s))
+        } else {
+            Self::DFStatement(Box::from(Statement::CopyTo(s)))
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+struct MyCopyToStatement {
+    pub source: CopyToSource,
+    pub target: String,
+}
+
+impl From<CopyToStatement> for MyCopyToStatement {
+    fn from(s: CopyToStatement) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            source: s.source,
+            target: s.target,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Display for MyCopyToStatement {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        write!(
+            f,
+            "COPY {} TO '{}' STORED AS FASTA",
+            self.source, self.target
+        )
+    }
+}
diff --git a/datafusion/sql/src/parser.rs b/datafusion/sql/src/parser.rs
index a5d7970495c54..c585917a1ed09 100644
--- a/datafusion/sql/src/parser.rs
+++ b/datafusion/sql/src/parser.rs
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ fn ensure_not_set<T>(field: &Option<T>, name: &str) -> Result<(), ParserError> {
 /// `CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE` have special syntax in DataFusion. See
 /// [`Statement`] for a list of this special syntax
 pub struct DFParser<'a> {
-    parser: Parser<'a>,
+    pub parser: Parser<'a>,
 }
 
 impl<'a> DFParser<'a> {