| Since 1924, Chinese Grammar Schools have been studying fugitive sentence. They have also made considerable achievements, but part of the problem has still not been satisfactorily resolved. Based on the previous research on modern Chinese fugitive sentence, the dissertation studies it systematically and comprehensively. It has eight chapters.Chapter One introduces the sources of the topic, the value of the study, the study methods and principles, the linguistic data source and the structure of the dissertation.Chapter Two reviews the study on Modern Chinese Fugitive Sentence. This part chiefly introduces their characteristics and outcomes of each period, and briefly points out the problems in the study.Chapter Three mainly introduces the definition of Fugitive Sentence, studies the relationship between this sentence and the possessive sentence and classifies this sentence from different angles.Chapter Four mainly studies two issues:First, analyzing the word order of Modern Chinese Fugitive sentence. In Modern Chinese, Fugitive sentence has a special word order. The formation of this particular word order is the result which the principal of the "reference" being infront of the "objects", the principle of communicative dynamism and the principles of the information structure interact. Second, analyzing this construction. Starting from the construction grammar, the dissertation looks upon modern Chinese Fugitive sentence as a constructions, explores the meaning of the sentence, the prototype features of the sentence and its extended mechanism, and reveals the contribution of the various parts which the meaning of overall construction is formed and the interactive harmony in them.Chapter Five mainly explores fugitive sentence distribution in a different style,genre and its coherence in text. Investigation showed that: fugitive sentence in spoken language is more than it in written language. It appeared in literary style more than in the non-literary style. In literary style, the form and presentation function of fugitive sentence have unique characteristics. Fugitive sentence plays an important role in textual cohesion. Chapter Six studies the development of fugitive sentence from the ancient to the medieval period to modern time. This part surfaced the features in its development: Semantic content complication and its structure form precision, and reveals the development of its textual cohesion function.Chapter Seven analyzes their formal difference of fugitive sentence, by comparing Chinese, English, Japanese and other languages, and reveals a large number of commonness hidden behind the sentence form. The other hand, by analyzing the asymmetry in use frequency between appear sentence and the disappear sentence, fully reveals the significance of Chinese fugitive sentence in studying linguistic typology.Chapter Eight summarizes the main contents and the basic viewpoint of this dissertation.Based on the language fact, the dissertation studies Modern Chinese fugitive sentence comprehensively. On the basis of the traditional grammar and the structural linguistics, referring to the new theories and methods such as functional linguistics, text linguistics, language typology, the dissertation discusses deeply many problems to Modern Chinese fugitive sentence, including its scope, its word order, its textual function and its evolution. The dissertation also puts forward some reasonable explanation on those problems which have not been resolved, such as the definition of fugitive sentence, the asymmetry in use frequency between appear sentence and the disappear sentence etc.This dissertation fully reveals the characteristics of Modern Chinese fugitive sentence, in favor to establish its position in Modern Chinese special sentence type. In studying, combining the sentence form and meaning, starting from the construction grammar, the author look fugitive sentence as a construction. This method has certain significance to studying Modern Chinese special sentence type. In this dissertation, the relevant conclusions have certain referential value not only for the study Modem Chinese and Chinese grammar history, but also for the study language typology.
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