A Study Of Rules Of Variation In Order Of Chinese Modificatary Complex Sentences

In recent years, research on Chinese modificatary complex sentences has tended to be various in perspective and method, and has achieved admirable results. Inspired by this tendency, this thesis adopts relative theories of some new subjects such as Pragmatics, Stylistics, Text Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, and makes full use of Corpus and statistics with high empirical quality to make a thorough examination on variation in the order of Chinese modificatory complex sentences. It aims to discover the principle in variation from the aspects of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and cognition.This thesis consists of nine chapters.Chapter One is Introduction. It takes bird's-eye view of survey of research in the order of Chinese modificatory complex sentences history. It briefly explains research objects; resources and selection of Corpus, theories and methods of this research, organization and basic frame of this thesis are explained.Paragraph Two to Paragraph Eight constitute Body. Chapter Two defines some basic concepts, such as modificatary complex sentences and its classification, hypotactic complex sentences, and paratactic complex sentences, regular order of sentences, variation in the order of sentences. Meanwhile, reasons of adopting Huang Borong and Liao Xudong's classifying system of modificatary complex sentences and Cheng Xianghui's stylistic system are also explained.Based on the order of causation complex sentences, hypothesis complex sentences, conditional complex sentences, transitional complex sentences, and complex sentences of purpose, Chapter Three to Chapter Seven make a thorogh, profound and detailed examination and exploration of variation in the order of Chinese modificatary complex sentences after briefly reviews the former research and explains the concerned concepts in this thesis. Taking the analysis of the former five chapters as base, Chapter Eight summarizes conditions and reasons of variation in Chinese complex sentences, and analyzes the universal principles lying within them.Chapter Nine is Conclusion, mainly summarizing the academic and practical significance of research of variation in order of Chinese complex sentences. It points out that this research not only promotes and deepens the theoretical study, but also has important instructing value in such practice as writing, translation, and language teaching. This chapter also explains shortcomings of this thesis and the future plan.This thesis has the following four features. Firstly, it makes full use of Corpus: this research has consistently used corpus as base. Apart from adopting the comprehensive Corpus by Beijing University (CCL), it also uses stylistic Corpus constructed by the author himself. Secondly, this thesis pays attention to stylistic distribution:for the sake that parole is always embodied with language style, all the study of the examples is related with style distribution. Thirdly, this thesis sticks to using data to explain problems. Discrimination between the regular order of sentence and the varied order of sentence, examination of varing frequency of different orders of sentences, conditions and reasons of order of sentences are all based on statistics. Fourthly, this thesis emphasizes the transition from theoretical values to practical values, and in this sense, this research helps to deepen research on Chinese modificatatry sentences. However, this thesis does not constrain itself here. By examining the application of some conclusions in the fields such as writing, translation, and language teaching, this thesis tries to unite "knowledge" and "practice".Based on thorough examination and deep exploration, this thesis concludes that:1. Chinese written language often takes the form of the former part as the subordinate clause and the latter part main clause, while Chinese spoken language often takes the opposite form;2.order of Chinese modificatory complex sentences is influenced by different factors, such as echo, semantic prminence, disfamiliariztion, haste in language choice, literal translation, etc.;3.as for embodiment of order of Chinese modificatory complex sentences, such factors as semantic presupposition, organization, stylistic distribution have influence upon it;4.varying frequency of different order of Chinese modificatory complex sentences is different, and continnum from low to hight can be concluded as the following:hypothesis complex sentences<transitional complex sentences<conditional complex sentences<causation complex sentences<complex sentences of purpose;5.variation in order of Chinese modificatory complex sentences is directly influenced by language style, and styles taking words as media can be summarized as the following continnum:legal language <scientific language<political language<artistic language<daily conversation language...