Studies On Syntactic And Semantic Meaning Of Touching And Bumping Verbs Based On Contemporary Chinese

The article aims at analysing the characteristics on syntactic and semantic meaning of touching and bumping verbs based on Contemporary Chinese. The original versions of the author's study focuses on The Contemporary Chinese Dictionary (5th edition),Usages of Chinese Verbs Dictionary, Complete Dictionary of Chinese Verbs and The Contemporary Chinese Dictionary of polysemous words, and the target verbs are bump, collide, touch, kneel, jostle, pound, dash against, knock against, stir up. The author try to make a complete studies on 5 elements semantic feature, syntactic distribution, sentence characteristic, object-carrier cases, complement-carrier cases.The whole thesis consists of 6 chapters:Chapter one:The author analyzes the meanings of the verbs based on dictionaries and date bank. Divide the whole into 4 groups: [±Active],[±power],[±one-sided direction],[±Moving quickly].Chapter two:This chapter aims at the syntactic distribution of the touching and bumping verbs. The distribution of the verbs are mainly located on predictive, Subject, Object and Attribute. All of them can be positioned on predicatives; jostle, dash against, knock against, can be positioned on subjects; jostle, pound, knock against on objects and dash against, knock against, stir up on attributives.Chapter three:This chapter aims at the sentence characteristics of the touching and bumping verbs, mainly investigates their syntactic form chosen by those verbs. Every verb belonging to this kind of touching and bumping verbs can choose the basic sentence mode, but differs in choosing the implicit sentence mode.Chapter four:This chapter aims at the semantic categories of those objects carried by such touching and bumping verbs. After investigation, the author finds that such touching and bumping verbs are mainly followed by subjective objects and belonging objects, then secondarily followed by causative objects and target objects. Some verbs can be followed by four types and some can be followed by three types. There are some verbs only followed by two types. Furthermore, these cases differ in emergence frequency.Chapter five:This chapter aims at the circumstances of such touching and bumping verbs followed by complement, which primarily investigates such cases of those verbs followed by directional complements, causative complements, quantitative complements and degree complements.Chapter six:It summarizes the whole essay.