Studies Of The Adverb In Ru Tang Qiu Fa Xun Li Xing Ji

Ru Tang Qiu Fa Xun Li Xing Ji《入唐求法巡礼反求行记》) is written by Yuan Ren, who is a well-known Buddhist monk in Japan.The book,involving very extensive content,is written in Chinese during 10 years when he stayed in China from AD839 to AD847.(《唐文宗开成三年至唐宣宗大中元年》).It provides very important data on social and cultural researching of late Tang,and it is of a high historical value.From the point of linguistic,this book is in the late of Tang Dynasty which is an important period of Chinese language transition.It is basically written in vernacular,that includes a great deal of oral component of that period.Studying the adverds in Ru Tang Qiu Fa Xun Li Xing Ji is very important for research of modern Chinese vocabulary and grammar.In this thesis,the 231 adverbs(254 items) and the corresponding language examples in the book are exhaustively arranged and quantitatively analyzed using the language material database of the book built up by myself.Using the methods of combining quantitative analysis with qualitative analysis and combining synchronic description with diachronic comparison,the adverbs are classified and characterized in order to find out their changes.This thesis is composed of three parts:PartⅠ,Introduction,introducing the author of Xing Ji,the value of the book,the present researching situation,the meaning and methods of the research.According to the principle that semantic and grammatical functions should be combined together,the adverbs in the book are divided into 7 categories.PartⅡ,Three categories such as adverb of scope,adverb of degree and cumulative adverb in the book have been described genealogically.PartⅢ,Four categories such as adverb of time,adverb of interjection,adverb of manner and adverb of negative in the book have been described genealogically.In all parts of the thesis,adverbs of Xing-Ji have been described systematically. At the same time,the new words that have been appeared ever since the middle times and adverbs with distinguish features in Xing-Ji have been emphasized to analyzed using the methods of of combination synchronic description with diachronic comparison.The evolution process of some special adverbs have been gotten into shape,in order to reveal the characteristics of the adverbs in Xing-Ji,then offers full and accurate materials for the study of adverbs of modem Chinese.