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An Empirical Study On The Construction Of "Subject - Predicate - Object (subject - Predicate Phrase)"

Posted on:2014-08-21Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:L J LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1105330482473176Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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Based on the blog corpus data of computer corpora, the paper collects 313 sentences which belong to "subject, predicate-object (subject and predicate phrases)" structure of psychological verbs, qualitatively and quantitatively analyzing and describing the grammatical and semantic component, syntactic relation, semantic relation, sentence structure and semantic structure from the aspect of positivism. The paper aims to fully and precisely understand the semantic component, feature, relation and the use of distribution in order to test the theoretical research.The first chapter analyses psychological verbs, and the research cue and context of "subject, predicate-object (subject and predicate phrases)" structure based on psychological verbs. Firstly, it explains the category of psychological verbs in linguistics. Secondly, it summarizes the research of "subject, predicate-object (subject and predicate phrases)" structure, examining the textual research of its origin, nature of the sentence structure, structural attribution, composition of syntax, research of semantics and functional attribution as well as explaining the research content and methods.The second chapter focuses on the classified statistics of grammatical structure in psychological verbs and "subject, predicate-object (subject and predicate phrases)" structure. First, it analyzes the distribution of the use of psychological verbs in data base from gender aspect. Then it analyzes the use of psychological verbs in "subject, predicate-object (subject and predicate phrases)" structure. It also sums up and classifies fourteen kinds of sentence structure, which is cognition, emotion and wish, from the aspect of psychological verb structure and semantic orientation. Finally, it explores the distribution and classification of psychological verbs in blog corpus and "subject, predicate-object (subject and predicate phrases)" structure.The third chapter analyzes the syntax of psychological verbs in "subject, predicate-object (subject and predicate phrases)" structure, describing syntactic components and syntactic relations in psychological verbs of cognition, emotion and wish. The paper explores the syntactic form of major subject, major predicate and major object, concluding that there are eleven kind of grammatical structures which are divided into fourteen categories. The predicate has nominal, verbal, adjectival feature. The fourth and the fifth chapter analyze the semantics of psychological verbs in "subject, predicate-object (subject and predicate phrases)" structure, exploring semantic components and semantic relations in the three patterns of cognition, emotion and wish. Firstly, it analyses the semantic components and features of major subject, and get six semantic characters. Secondly, it makes semantic feature analysis and semanteme analysis of major predicate, finding it indicates certain aspect of people’s cognition, emotion and willingness. Then the paper makes semantic analysis of combination relations in major predicate, concluding that there are 54 kinds of semantic forms. Finally, it analyses the semantic feature and semantic combination relations in major objects, concluding that there are 12 kinds of semantic forms with subject-predicate phrases used as objects.The six chapter is a conclusion, reviewing and reflecting on the researching methods which deal with data base and ontology research.
Keywords/Search Tags:psychological verbs, subject, predicate- object (subject and predicate phrases)" structure, syntax-semantics, empirical studies, corpus
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