A Study On The Reversible Sentences Concerning Providing And Availability In Modern Chinese

Within a colletive framework of the reversible sentences in modern Chinese, this dissertation mainly discusses the problems relative to the reversible sentences concerning providing and availability. Refering to functional linguistic views, we circle newly the boundary of the reversible sentences concerning providing and availability, discuss the constructional meaning of them, and explain tentatively the cognitive reasons which can make the sentences reversible. And on this base, a detailed description is given to the semantic and syntactic representations of theirs sub-categories,and a grade sequence of the reversible degree is set up. The dissertation has seven chapters, and their main ideas are as follows:The first chapter is a general discussion.,which introduces the significance of the research on the reversible sentences, outlines the research already done in this field. A division of three periods is proposed, i.e., the beginning period, the developing period and the in-depth researching period. Furthermore, we introduce the sub-categories of the reversible sentences according to their semantic meaning ,explain the research scope of our dissertation and the theories used in this article.The sencond chapter summarizes the reversible sentences concerning providing and availability . In this chapter, we discuss the constructional meaning of them, analyse the semantic and syntactic representations of them, and explain tentatively the congnitive reasons which can make the sentences reversible. An introduction of the sub-categories of the reversible sentences concerning providing and availability is given too.The thirth to the fifth chapters describe and analyse the ten sub-categories of the reversible sentences concerning providing and availability. The ten categories are classfied into three groups, and we discuss one group in each charpter. Looking for the cognitive reasons of each semantic compounding relating to the forming of the reversible sentences concerning providing and availability, analysing the semantic and syntactic restrictions of them, describing the semantic and syntactic representations of them, and finally summarizing the degree of their freedom relating to the forming of the reversible sentences, are the work we have done in this part.The sixth chapter seeks the rules and disciplines to the reversible sentences concerning providing and availability. Based on the argument in the thirth to the fifth chapters, we set up a grade sequence of the reversible degree relating to the ten sub-categories, besides this , the function of economy of language to the forming of the reversible sentences, the incline to single syllable of verbs in reversible sentences and the peculiarity of the word order in modern Chinese are all discussed too.The seventh chapter is a summary. Possible shortcomings of the dissertation and issues for future studies are also mentioned.