Research On "Hai"

The semantic system of "hai" is a huge semantic tribe, which seems like a networksystem full of layers with chain-character. The seniors and present scholars have madeplentiful studies,but there are still some questions which are worth researching and discussing.Based on the past researches, probing from the headstream of "hai" at first, the thesismades some corpus-based demonstrations and analysises lengthways, with the clue of itssemantical propagation and extension, and then describes the course of grammaticalization of"hai"from antiquity to today, and mainly analyzes meanings, functions and syntacticaldistributions of the modern Chinese adverb "hai".After that, the thesis probes its origin to find out its etymeme whose semantical traits arefully excavated, and which can govern all the glossemets of all times;so that we can draw theoutline of the semantical evolvement chains,which form two main series based on the startingpoints of "fan" and "hui",and seems like a huge network full of layers containing its internalembranchments.The thesis also discussed the factors of the development of meaning.After systematically studying the meanings of "hai", applying both the diachronic andsynchronic approaches,the thesis composed schemas of "hai"'s meaning,includingmicrocosmic schemas of etymemes and macroscopic schemas of the abstract essence of"hai"'s meaning.Finally,we compared "hai" with its correlative sememe groups from synchronologicalaspects,so that we can look after some characters of tense-aspect category,degree category,andquantity category from three perspectives—syntactic,semantic and pragmatic,and then we tryto deeply explain these phenomena diachronically and cognitively.