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Toward A Multi-Dimensional Approach To The "Degree Adverb+Noun"

Posted on:2008-08-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360242457072Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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"Adverb of the Degree + Noun" is one kind of distinctive sentence structure form, which has already appeared in many famous literature occasionally in twenty centuries. But it is just in 10 to 20 years that the structure begins popular. From the syntactics point of view, adverb of the degree cann't combine directly with noun generally. "Adverb of the Degree + Noun" is a kind of nonstandard grammar phenomenon, but in fact this kind of structure don't influence the understanding of listeners or readers. Instead it has been accepted by more and more people because of its unique meaning function and pragmatic feature. It has been used widely in speech communication and made special expression effect. The study object of this paper is "Adverb of the Degree + Noun" structure such as "very China", "extremely sunlight", and "too sissy". This structure is composed ofadverb of the degree (for example, "very, too ,extremely, quite, especially" and so on ) and noun including nominal group. The study concentrates on the beginning of this grammar phenomenon, initiating impingement to the traditional ideas of grammar circles. At the same time, we try to make great efforts to give new research value of linguistics. This study sums up to large amount of languages in contemporary and modern times literature work, news media and Internet, using lots of theory methods such as semanteme characteristic analysis, cognition linguistics and grammar theory to make an explanation from semanteme, language uses significance, cognition mechanism, grammar behavior and mechanism. The content is composed of five parts. Part I is a preface including the study object of this paper, research review and deficiency of predecessors, and the research methods and suggestions of this paper. It mainly suggested the core problem, the documents and selecting the study method. Second, the research analyzed the semanteme characteristic and semanteme explanation of the "Adverb of the Degree + Noun" structure. It mainly studied respectively from the semanteme characteristics of adverb of the Degree and noun to recognize their semanteme characteristics in the "Adverb of the Degree + Noun" structure. And made a rational interpretation of the semanteme characteristic of "Adverb of the Degree + Noun" structure. Part III has summarized its uses value of the "Adverb of the Degree + Noun" structure from four aspects. Fourth, the study has analyzed the cognition mechanism and their grammar characteristic of the "Adverb of the Degree + Noun" structure. Part V is to sum up our study. We think that the "Adverb of the Degree + Noun" structure has measurement righteousness and describing semanteme characteristic. The research makes up synonymous on value in language and opens up an exhibition of part nouns' description character. The form is fuzzy. The word is simply but rich to make the language more vivider and fadder , to make emotion more clearer and have strong expressive power. At the same time, we amended the problems that exists in other people's studying and made every effort to reveal this structure's creation cause, semanteme characteristic , uses value, inherent law in their developing and evolution process.
Keywords/Search Tags:"Adverb of the Degree + Noun" structure, Semanteme characteristic, Language uses value, Cognition mechanism
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