Scriptures Translated Adverbs Study

Chinese Buddhist texts are of great value in studying the Chinese language. It is more valuable in the study of mid-ancient Chinese language because of the lack of oral materials.The dissertation makes a study on Zhi Qian's translated Buddhist texts who was a famous Buddhist translator in the "three countries" period, discusses all the adverbs that appear in the texts, in order to show a side-look of the adverbs in this period.It is divided into four parts.In the first two parts, all the adverbs in Zhi Qian's translated texts are listed and discussed thoroughly to demonstrate the great value of the words in adverb study and Lexicon. In the third part, some typical adverbs are discussed; and in the last part ,we select several groups of adverbs which have similar meanings, analyze their differences through comparison with Buddhist texts of Late Han and native literatures of the same period.After the analysis, we draw the conclusion that the adverb systerm in Zhi Qian's translated Buddhist texts is very different from that in the earlier time. There are a lot of new meanings and new words, it has three features: a large quantity, a combound of the new words and the old ones and many disyllabic adverbs and unstable structures.