On The Historical Substitution Of Zhi(祗)/zhi(止)/zhi(只) And Related Problems

Restrictive scope adverb zhi(只) is one of the focuses in grammatical circles. But up to the present, its researches are mostly limited in modern Chinese language, and make little investigation in its history. Even there are some books of investigative work in adverb, but for the reason of its restrictive discussion, the researches have done little in the development of scope adverb. This thesis tries to describe the origin and usage of zhi(止/只) buzhi(止/不止) zhishi(止/不是) and zhiyou(止/只有) in historical development, and thoroughly discuss the inducement of their changes of zhi(只) and other related problems of bushi (不止/只) zhishi (只是) zhiyou(只有/止). The thesis is divided into four parts:The first part is about the usage and change of zhi'(只) .It analyzes the source and change of the zhi (祗) and the adaptation on characters zhi (祗) and zhi (只).The second part researches the historical substitution of the zhi (止/只) . Throughstudying the language datum in history, this thesis analyzes historical substitution of zhi(止/只) .Due to the heavy burden of zhi(只) from its meaning and syntax function., forthe economy and perspicuity of expression, particle word zhi(止) substitutes zhi(只 ) toexpress the restrictive concept.The third part shows the history evolvement of zhi(止/只) structure. It mostly describe the history evolvement of bushi (止/不止) zhishi(止/只是) zhiyou(止/只有) to find their developing tracks.The forth part discusses the reason and expression of language evolvement . On the basis of the above two parts , the thesis studies the evolving reason of buzhi(止/不止) zhishi(止/只是) zhiyou(止/只有)to discover the inducement of their changes.