Modern Chinese Characters Commonly Used Two-tone Function Word Evolution And Cognitive Analysis

In recent 20 years, the research of common words is given more and more consideration. But many researchers focused on notional word, and the researches of functional word were restricted in the monosyllable. This dissertation makes a preliminary study that focus on disyllabic function word in order to discover some ignored processes of the formation and disciplinarian of evolvement of common disyllabic function word, and tries to analyze the deep cognitive reasons of the evolvement, which expecting to giving some beneficial references to the research of history of Chinese language. The dissertation has six chapters:Chapter I : After fixing the object of study, common disyllabic function word of modern Chinese, the dissertation reviews the achievements and the weakness of the research in this field. And then elaborates the signification, material and method of our research.Chapter II: Based on the characteristic of cognition, we research more than 20 common disyllabic adverbs. There are six kinds research of them: (1) Research on the path and the mechanism of evolvement about one kind of time adverb Datou(打头). (2) Research on discussion of the formation process of kind of time adverb Kan(看) and the psychological motivation of its evolvement from verb to time adverb. (3) The explanation of lexicalization and subjectivisation of one kind of modal adverb Kanlai(看来) and Xianglai(想 来). (4) The discussion on evolutive context of antonymous coordination modal adverb of one kind of Fanzheng(反正) and the function of the cognitive law of contradictory on grammaticalization and word replacement. (5) The explanation of formation, character and function of Haoge(好个), Haoyige(好一个) and Haonige(好你个). (6) The discovery of evolutive law and cognitive motivation of one kind of adverb of degree that has the meaning of going beyond limitation and regulate.ChapterIII: After studying more than 50 disyllabic prepositions of Xzhe(X着) and Xle(X了), we point out that the formation of them is not from "preposition + aspect marker", but from "verb + aspect marker". Zhe(着) and Le(了) are two functional element that have different strata of function. We also point out that Jingguo(经过), Jing(经) and Tongguo(通过) follow the same evolutive path. The formation of them is the result of cross-domain mapping of image schema (Source-Path-Goal Schema) when people are recognizing the objective world.ChapterIV: We research the difference of disyllabic conjunctions , such as Bianshi(便是) and Jiushi(就 是), etc. by the means of contrastively enumerating them that have similar function, and pay more attention to the cognitive elements that cause the difference between them.Chapter V: Based on the researches of the grammaticalization process and path of six disyllabic auxiliary words such as Bianshi(便是) and Laizhe(来着), etc. We draw the outline of developmental history of these words and illustrate the motivation and the mechanism of evolvement.ChapterVI: We discuss three questions of our investigation object. First, summing up four paths of evolvement. Second, pointing out the operating mechanism of metaphor and metonymy in the course of the grammaticalization of disyllabic functional words. Third, discussing the extension of material and emphasizing the function of dialect that some language phenomena should not be ignored.