A Study On The Usage Of Adjective "Quan"Base On The Corpus

The study of "Quan" in Mandarin has four major characteristics:focus on the adverb study, focus on the comparative study, synchronic study and descriptive study. There is very little research about the study of adjective "Quan" which is based on the researchers’own sense of language. Moreover, the teaching of adjective "Quan" in TCFL classroom often ignore the frequency and relationship between each meanings of the word. The students can’t find the way to learn and use the different meanings of "Quan" because the teacher explain them from dictionary.This thesis will try to statistic and analyze the collocation and coordination about adjective "Quan" on the base of corpus. Furthermore, Find the main usage of "Quan" and try to explain it with the quantity theories, dynamic theories and prototypical meanings. Finally, we present on its teaching suggestions for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language based on the data and analysis.