Study On The Syntactic Normalization In Contemporary Chinese

Syntax is dynamic usage of the language and the degree of its normalization may directly influence the expression of proper idea and the communication of information. The normalization itself is related to many factors and embodied in the possible choice of syntactical evolution and development, which must correspond with the meaning expression system of the syntax. Therefore, when we describe the diachronic evolution of syntax and its current use, position and value in the syntax system, we must explain the reason why old syntactic structures have varied or new syntactic structures have come into being, and judge the trend of the varied or newly born syntactic structures evolving and developing and their effect upon the future syntactical development so as to correctly determine the reasonability of the variation and lead it to develop rationally.Based on the above principle, the main body of this thesis deals with the characteristics of syntax itself and its evolution trend, the homological and different factors affecting its development, and provides some rules and measures to normalize it, which can be seen in the following six chapters:The first chapter is the introduction. It deals with the discipline positioning of the syntactic normalization, the relevant study conditions, the similarity and difference between syntax and morphology. Meanwhile, the character, the task and the value of syntactic normalization, as well as its object and standard, are explored and discussed.The second chapter deals with the condition and trend of the syntax evolution and development. The key points are put in the discussion of common order and variable order, syntactic complexity and simplicity, variation of words' collocation and combination, expansion and compression of the syntactic layers, syntactic innovation and choice, and a few trends of variable syntactic choices are summarized. It shows the economic rule is not the unique language principle and in many situations the evolution rule is also very important.The third chapter deals with some homological factors influencing the syntactic evolution and development, including harmonization of the morphemes, expression of the meanings, syntactic function of the words, variation of the syntactic structures and the pragmatics. These factors belong to the same synchronic linguistic system and will affect the choice and variation of syntax, and put direct effect on the evolution and development of syntax.The fourth chapter explores and analyzes some influencing factors that don't belong to the same system. They are space factors, including regional dialects, social dialects and foreign words; time factors, namely, the reservation and adoption of ancient Chinese; cognitive factors, for example, deviation of remembering or understanding, emphasis or neglect of some kinds of syntactic components, etc.; background factors, e.g. the syntactic using frequency.The fifth chapter deals with the rational syntactic definition and it's applying rules. It is discussed which syntactic evolution way is beneficial or harmful. It is analyzed, not only from syntax itself but also from the whole syntactic system, whether the syntactic can express the meaning clearly and correctly, whether it has the corresponding pragmatic value, and whether a new syntactic structure or a different style of the same syntactic structure is added, or the current syntactic structure is in conflict with the original one. In the reasonability definition of syntax, some rules can be used, which include the rule of application, the rule of acceptance, the rule of using frequency, the rule of layers, the rule of development.The sixth chapter deals with some tactics and measures of syntactic normalization. The introduction or adoption of syntax should be based on whether it can express the meaning clearly and correctly. No matter whether it comes from dialect,ancient Chinese or foreign languages, it should be a good supplement to the modem Chinese syntactic system so as not to conflict but enrich the modern Chinese syntactic system. In the course of syntactic normalization, we should take different measures: regulation for those that cannot but have to be distinguished; guidance for those that have corresponding styles but not special pragmatic values; permission for those that are not to violate the modern syntactic system but can express meanings more easily or clearly, or have not too many pragmatic values but are still in use; forbiddance for those which are confusable in the meaning expression and not to orient the linguistic development.