The Research Of The Universal Verb "Zheng" Of Northeast Dialect

On the basis of investigating abundant language material of the universal verb“zheng”, this thesis makes comprehensive description on the syntax, semanteme,pragmatic usage of “zheng” by using structuralism, cognitive linguistics theory andanalytical approach of semanteme features, and it also explains the reason of thephenomenon to some extent.The first chapter is the introduction, which mainly introduces the aim andsignificance of the topic, and summarizes former study on the name, existence,comparison, individual cases of universal verbs and the verb “zheng”. This chapteralso discusses the study direction, aim, theoretical basis, study method and possibleinnovation.The second chapter mainly researches the universal verb “zheng” of Northeastdialect. The semanteme feature of the verb “zheng” has strong handling natures andtransitivity, so the sentence using the verb “zheng” relatively ignores the method ofthe action while emphasizes the results. This chapter also investigates semantemefeatures such as animacy of the agentive subject and recipient of the verb “zheng”,and it makes classified investigation on the verbs which can be replaced by “zheng”and finds that “zheng” usually has some negative meanings and becomes stereotypedexpression when it is followed by abstract nouns. Besides, this chapter researches thedifferences and reasons of the replacement of “zheng” and also its abstraction ingrammaticalization.The third chapter makes thorough study of “zheng” from syntax aspect when itacts as predicate, adnex, and other structure. This chapter researches the syntaxconditions where the universal verb “zheng” appears, such as commonsubject-predicate sentence,“ba” sentence (active voice), and “bei” sentence(passivevoice), and it also analyzes the reason of sentence pattern choice.The fourth chapter mainly describes the pragmatic situation of the universal verb “zheng”, and analyzes its pragmatic function and rhetoric characteristics. Thepragmatic circumstances make the universal language usage of “zheng” become fixedand apparent. The chapter analyzes the reason of replacement from the internaldevelopment of language such as economy, indirection, abstraction, and requirement,and from the external aspects such as demand of society development and publicmedia influence. At last, this chapter analyzes the rhetorical effect of the verb“zheng”.The fifth chapter makes comparison of “zheng” with other universal verbs inNortheast dialect, and analyzes the differences and reasons on semanteme, syntax,style and emotional coloring. According to the comparison, we believe the verb“zheng” of Northeast dialect will be taken into the universal verbs of Putonghua(common spoken Chinese), and it will appear complementary distribution withuniversal verbs such as “gao”,“nong”, etc.