Study Of Verb Reduplication Of The Water Margin

The ways of studying The Water Margin's verb reduplication include quantity statistics,description of phenomena,analysis of quality as well as diachronic means discussing the historic status of The Water Margin's verb reduplication,though we make more use of synchronic research.Through making the overall research for the verb reduplications of The Water Margin, the article classifies and sums up the verb reduplications, such as the types of mono-syllable verb reduplications and bisyllable verb reduplications according to their syllable. The mono-syllable verb reduplications are divided into two patterns: VV and V- V,and bisyllable verb reduplications also into two patterns: V₁V₁V₂V₂ and V₁V₂V₁V₂. In the respects of not only quantity,verb samples,but also ratios, mono-syllable verbs are adapt to be reduplicated. Most verbs,which can be reduplicated,are autonomie verbs.The article studies the constructional characters,grammatical meanings and pragmatic functions of verb reduplications of The Water Margin,and also their syntactic functions,semantic direction and sentence patterns. V₁V₁V₂V₂ patterns of verb reduplications are divided into united reduplication and juxtaposed reduplication according to their constructional characters. The united reduplication is divided into morpheme reduplication and syllable reduplication. The juxtaposed reduplication is divided into two kinds: one, which two parts----V₁V₁ and V₂V₂----can be used respectively,and the other,which two parts not. Grammatical meaning of verb reduplication is considered as subjective quantity in the article.Verb reduplications of The Water Margin are mainly used as predicate, adverbial, attribute and complement,and only once as subject. The verb reduplications can be monosemantic direction or bisemantic direction according to their grammatical functions when they are used as adverbial,attribute or complement. The verb reduplications may be divided into monovalent verbs,bivalent verbs and trivalent verbs,and they are used in sentence models and sentence patterns respectively. The article discusses the historic status of The Water Margin's verb reduplications according to the total quantity,kinds and the status of main verb reduplications of them.