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Modern Chinese refers to the historical period from Tang dynasty to the early stage of Qing dynasty. During this period, although classical style of writing still takes the dominant position in written Chinese, spoken Chinese and some written Chinese close to colloquial language has demonstrated great distinction from the old Chinese. Nearly all the distinctive grammatical features formed in this period, some of which have existed previously, but rapidly grow into the eventual usages in modern Chinese while some originate right during this period. Dynastic grammar study is the precondition of the research into Chinese language evolution and Song dynasty is of vital importance in the development process of modern Chinese, therefore, the syntactic study into the scripts for stories in Song dynasty belongs to the fundamental work in the overall study of Chinese language, from which we can observe the complete picture of grammatical structures in Song dynasty.The emergence and development of verb-complement structure is of great significance in Chinese language evolution in providing much precise expressions. Diachronic syntactic comparison will clearly show the development sequence of this special structure. Built on the principle of combining form and meaning, this dissertation attempts to employ distributive theory, semantic deixis theory and grammaticalization theory to research into the verb-complement structure of story scripts in Song dynasty, to investigate fully into its expressions respectively in syntactical, semantic and pragmatic levels, to explore its diachronic evolution relationship and furthermore, to explain the driving force of the evolution.The dissertation consists of seven chapters: the exordium and other verb-compliment structures together with summary are granted one chapter respectively while the main body takes four chapters. The thematic part starts from the division with the word "de", one is the verb-complement structure without "de" while the other is the verb-complement structure with "de". Then, based on the semantic relationship between the predicate verb and the complement, the former group is divided into verb-result complementary structure (chapter two), verb-phase complementary structure (chapter three) and verb-direction complementary structure (chapter four); the latter group...