Research On The Modern Chinese Idiom Grammatical Function

Idiom is a kind of fixed phrase which has become a custome through long time usage with a written sense.Idiom has the features of holistic significance,structural solidification.Idiom occupies considerable proportion in Chinese vocabulary system,and it exists in great numbers in modern oral and written Chinese.Idiom is an indispensible diction in modern Chinese.Idiom has been playing an more and more important role in social intercommunicatin because of its individuality and it has become a popular field in modern Chinese research.The thesis consists of four parts:This thesis has quotated 983 idioms from《Chinese Idiom Dictionary》and apart from those 41 idioms that are not tetrad pattern and difficult to anylize,there are 942 idioms in all.Based on the National Vocabulary Data Base,every idiom has been searched and 9280 sentences are selected as examples,among which some are explaination for certain idiom or quotation of an idiom in a sentenceand so on.It's no use discussing the grammatical relationand and syntax function with those senetences,so 59 sentences like these will be removed,as a result,9289 sentences are selected as example sentences..After the Stat. and analyzing,a small-sized vocabulary data base is set up.The first part is the analysis of the inner structure of idioms.In this chapter 942 idioms are devided into seven types:coordination,subject and predicate,modifier-head,side-center structure,center-complements,predicate-predicate structure and double-founctioning-member and some Stat. is made.The second part is the division of founctions of idioms.this part is based on the standards of free phrases and content words,with the significance and combanation forms and so on,these 942 idioms are divided into nominal and predicate idioms and the amount of idioms of these two types. By the fact that the data observing these inspects the idiom and general liberty shortly, words and phrases is similar to the partitional difference.The third part is mainly about the functions of different types of idioms play in sentences. In this chapter,the gramma functions of nominal and predicate idioms are refered to and the common and different points of nominal and predicate idioms and content words.The fourth part is the law this thesis concluds.eg, when nominal and predicate idioms are part of a sentence,they posess the quality of general nominal and predicate words,but they can be unique,eg.a nominal idiom is either the subject or object of a sentence,some can be ajectives,but they are rarely adverbial or complement. After the conclusion,the reasons for this are anaylized and explained.This thesis is backed up by knowledge of lexics and syntcatics and is mainly about the inner structure and grammar function of idiom and discovers the commonness and differences between idioms and nominal words.