The Study On Instrument Category In Mandarin Chinese And Constructions Relevant To It

The instrument category is an important category in chinese samantic categories system.based on case grammar, GB theory and markedness theory, we mainly research the characters of the instrument category and the distribution of the instrument in the surface syntax structure. And take this as the foundation, discusse the unmarked sentence and marked sentences, which contain the instrument category. As well as discusse markedness meaning and the forming conditions and forming causes of the marked sentences.The main contents include:1.According to the deep semantic relation, conform the instument category concept, analyse the grammar marked. And also compare the similarities and differences between instrument category and material category.2.Classify and describe the instrument category which can appear in different syntactic position. The instrument category may appear in three kinds of syntaxes positions: Adverbial position, subject position and object position.3.Based on the second part, the sentences relevant to the instrument category which appear in the different syntax position are divided into unmarked sentence and marked sentence. By comparison, Explain the generation process of the marked sentence.And discuss the markedness meaning.The marked sentence relevant to instrument category respectively is: "ba+instrument" sentence, "bei+instrument" sentence,instument as subjects and instrument as objects sentence. This part is a key point in the article.