A Study On Modern Chinese Psychological Verbs

The 1^st psychological verbs introduced to Chinese grammar study by Mr. Ma Jianzhong in the book"The Grammar by Mr. Ma"(Ma Shi Wen Tong) in 1898. After many years of hard works by other grammarians, the psychological verbs became one important part of the Chinese verbs family. Following by the new grammatic theories and international exchange on Chinese grammar study in the past decade, more researches and studies had been carried out and many achievements have been accessed. Now we have the studies on many grammatic aspects such as Syntax, Semantics, Cognition and Valency.There are still many issues have not been solved in the psychological verbs study. Different recognizations are still be there waiting for further studies.Many psychological verbs are everyday used in commucation with high frequency. The study on psychological verbs may enrich ideas and methods on the gramatic research, helping people express the feelings and emotions more accurate and colorful by more understanding the skills using these verbs. Furthermore, foreign students may gain profits on mind opening, glossary enlargement and more fluent speaking.Based on the three main human psychological procedure of"Recognition, Emotion and Detemination"and some senmatic and grammatic function frames, we can distinguish the psyological verbs from all the verbs in"Modern Chinese Dictionary"(The 5th Edition, 2005). By doing so, 765 verbs were filtered out. And the second step was to divide the 765 verbs into three groups: Active Psychological Verbs, Stative Psychological Verbs and Causive Psychological Verbs. Each group was studied independently by the aspects of Senmatics and Gramars.We used the Corpora to reflect the various usage of the psychological verbs in modern Chinese. By analysing the example sentences, we were able to find the relative links and principles between certain relative psychological verbs.