Modern Chinese Resulting Sentence Study

With help of typology, cognitive explanation and construction grammar combining the method of distribution and transform in structuralism, this thesis provides a detailed research on Modern Chinese Causative Construction.Chapter 1 is an introduction about the reason why we choose the Causative Construction as a research topic. Causative category is an important syntactic-semantic category in linguistics. We talk about some basic concepts of Causative Construction (Causative Construction, Causer, Causee, Causing event, Caused event, Proposition Causer, Individual Causer and etc.), some related semantic parameters, and the three main types of Causative Construction of the world languages (morphological, lexical and analytical). It is definited that the Causative Construction is constituted by two events. On the reference of which, Chinese Causative Construction is given a general classification. On the basis of general introduction about the researches home and abroad, this thesis focuses its research on the four main types of Causative Construction (Causative Construction with result verb; Causative Construction with "ft"; Causative Construction with ; Inverted Causative Construction.)Chapter 2 is a research on Causative Construction with result verb: the causative meaning is mainly expressed by the verb in this construction. The causative verbs used in the construction have been comprehensively discussed, and as a result, its derivational feature has been found and defined. The Causative verbs in this construction can be classified into two categories: one that can be recorded into dictionaries, another improvisational which cause the continuous increase of causative verbs in Modern Chinese. Not all the construction can be changed into "ft" construction when changed into "ft" construction. If the causee is possessive phrase, the Causative Construction with result verb might constitute a double causative construction.Chapter 3 discusses Causative Construction with "使". Firstly, the word "使" is identified as a pure causative verb while the causee and result both constitute the object of the word in the "ft" construction. Miss-used "ft" construction by foreign students are given exemplified analysis and corresponding answers, combining the ontological study on the topic. In addition, the subtle differences between "使" construction and "使" construction are also discussed in this chapter. In nature, both patterns are different analytical causative constructions with different syntactic structure and different semantic structures, therefore, the word "使" and the word "#" can not be simply changed into each other unconditionally, though they can in some cases.Chapter 4 explores the problem of construction. The verb before the word in this construction is not necessarily what we called causative verbs, and the causative meaning is brought on by the whole construction. The limit or range of causative pattern is confined by whether it can be changed into 'pattern. In accordance to the orientation of VP in the Causative Construction "NP1+V+NP2+VP", we classified this construction into three categories: one in which orientates to V, another orientates to NP1, and still another orientates to NP2. The reason why the 1st two types of construction are less frequently used is explained with the help of Salience and the Proximity Principle. In this chapter, the author also discusses ambivalent Causative Construction with , and gives further explanation on Mr. Zhudexi's explanations of ambivalent sentences, once more in the light of Salience the Proximity Principle.Chapter 5 focuses on Inverted Causative Construction. The verb itself in this construction has no causative meaning, which is given by the whole sentence. In accordance to their result differences, we classified these Inverted Causative Construction into four categories: those of which the result elements are duration-phrases; of which the result are frequency phrases; the result of which are number-phrases about the universal; or number phrases about money.