A Corpus-based Study On Comparative Sentences "Gen, You, Bi"

Based on existing studies about Chinese comparative sentences, my dissertation focuses onthree grammatical comparative sentences: Gen, You, Bi. The main purpose of this paper is todescribe and analyze these three sentences according to extensive balanced corpus in thedimension of distribution and features of grammar, semantics and vocabulary. Meanwhile, across-style compare is conducted in order to depict the variations caused by written and spokenlanguage style. With the data we found from corpus, this paper also discusses the issue ofintegration and differentiation of comparative sentences.This dissertation includes four parts: general theory, respective depiction, theoreticaldiscussion and summarization.The first chapter reviews existing studies on problems of definition and depiction of Chinesecomparative sentences. The second chapter introduces my research design. We classifiedcomparative sentences into lexical sentence and grammatical sentence. The grammatical one isconsisted by "Gen, You, Bi" which is similarly used in the form of "A+Prep+B+predicate".The third to the fifth chapter describe "gen" sentence,"you" sentence and "bi" sentencerespectively. Based on written language and spoken language corpus, we depict these sentences'performance of distribution and features of grammar, semantics and vocabulary. We classify "gen"sentence into equation expression, approximation expression and differentiation expression, inwhich equation expression is the most common one. We classify "you" sentence into equationexpression and subordination expression in which equation expression is a mostly used one. Weclassify "bi" sentence into exceedation expression, equation expression and subordinationexpression in which exceedation expression takes the largest part. Besides the description ofdistribution, we also depict the features of grammar, semantics and vocabulary for every kind ofcomparative sentence. Meanwhile, we conduct a cross-language style compare for these sentences.The chapter six puts "gen""you""bi" on a common framework that can integrate these theresentences as a projection result of meaning, cognition and structure. We claim that all thesecomparative sentences are embodiments of comparative meaning. The progress of embodiment isdriven by cognitive factor, lexical factor and semantics factor. The differences among these factorslead to the differentiation of "gen""you" and "bi". At the same time, we also discuss howlanguage style differences influence the variation in written and spoken style language.Chapter seven reviews this study in general, elaborates its application meanings in teachingand summarizes this study's innovations and insufficiencies.