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With The Pronouns "consolidating" The Two-syllable Word Vocabulary And Grammar, And

Posted on:2013-01-18Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:T T ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115330374477716Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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This thesis, taking these double syllable words formed by pronounincorporation as investigation objects including double syllable wordsformed by demonstrative pronoun and bleaching personal pronounincorporation.Starting from language materials and according to the theories oflexicalization and grammaticalization, this paper deeply explores theformation of double syllable words formed by pronoun incorporationfrom three perspectives: the time of incorporation, the manners ofincorporation and the results of incorporation. We also pay muchattention to the motivation and mechanism of the formation of doublesyllable words. This thesis also aims to reveal the characteristics and lawof incorporation in the light of the formation of the specific words.This thesis consists of five chapters including the introduction.Chapter1is introduction. This part does overall introduction andsummarization of the studying on double syllable words, then raises thestudying methods, introduces the theories that this paper based on, aswell as illustrates the language data.Chapter2is mainly on the view of time of incorporation to explorethe phenomenon of pronoun incorporation. The time of pronounincorporation includes ancient period, mesoid and modern times. In theancient period, the pronouns which can be incorporated are very few,in fact excepting the example that the demonstrative pronoun "shi"(是)incorporated into a new words "yushi"(于是), we hardly findanother case of this pronoun incorporation. The most of double syllablewords formed by pronoun incorporation were emerged in mesoid andmodern period. We can take two instances to explain the course ofevents, the lexicalization of "jiran"(既然)for mesoid period and the lexicalization of "chengran"(诚然)for modern period.Chapter3mainly examines the phenomenon of pronounincorporation from the perspectives of manners of incorporation andinner structure relations. The manners in fact is the place can bedivided into front adhering and back adhering, mainly is back adhering.we respectively take two instances, the lexicalization of "yinci"(因此)and the lexicalization of "ranhou"(然后)to explain. Inner structurerelations can also be split into syntax structure relations and non-syntaxstructure relations. The double syllable words formed by back adheringare normally lexicalized form syntax structure and the inner structurerelations of these words can be divided into verb-object relations andpolarization relations. On the contrary, the double syllable wordsformed by front adhering are lexicalized form non-syntax structure. Wewill respectively use the lexicalization of "jiazhi"(加之),"qishi"(其实),"raner"(然而)to explain.Chapter4mainly discusses the syntactic results after the process ofpronoun incorporation, including two parts: the change of pronounafter incorporation; the change of whole structure. As to one part, itmeans that with the meaning of one pronoun bleaching and theaccessibility weakening, incorporated pronoun was changed into affix.According to investigation, pronoun can be developed to affix are"ran"(然)and "qi"(其) The other part is the change of function ofwhole structure can be divided into three levels: adverbialization;conjunctionalized; marked. We will respectively use the lexicalization of"youqi"(尤其),"fouze"(否则),"guanta"(管他)to explain.Chapter5is the conclusion. Based on the case studies fromchapter2to4, we not only understand the phenomenon of Chinesepronoun incorporation, but also generalize the characteristics and lawof incorporation, as well as explore the motivation and mechanism ofdouble syllable words formed by pronoun incorporation.
Keywords/Search Tags:pronoun incorporation, lexicalization, grammaticalization, cognition, accessibility
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