Multi-Perspective Analysis Of Achieved "Shi…de" Sentence Patterns

This dissertation conducts researches on the achieved "Shi…de" sentence patterns in Mandarin Chinese. It describes the syntactic and semantic characteristics of the sentence patterns and explores the differences as well as similarities between them. On the basis of description and exploration, it also analyzes different views on the sentence patterns from both domestic and overseas scholars. The author puts forward his new view on the evolutional sources of the sentence patterns from the perspective of grammaticalization and reconsiders the relevant issues derived from it.According to the different positions of "de" in the sentence patterns, Chapter II and Chapter III of this dissertation divides the sentence patterns into two groups: the group of sentence patterns ending with "de" and the group of sentence patterns with "de" in the middle. The group of sentence patterns ending with "de" includes the achieved sentence pattern of "ShiSV(O)de", which initializes with "Shi", the achieved sentence pattern of "OShi(S | A)Vde", which begins with the patient of the verb and keeps "Shi" in between, and the achieved sentence pattern of "SShiAV(O)de", which puts the agent in the front; The group of sentence patterns with "de" in the middle includes the achieved sentence pattern of "SShiAVdeO", the achieved sentence pattern of "SShiVdeO", and the achieved sentence pattern of "ShiSVdeO". The achieved sentence pattern of "SShiVdeO" includes the sentence pattern of "SShiV_FdeO" and "SShiVdeO_F". When we are analyzing different sentence patterns, we not only emphasize their syntactic and semantic characteristics, the source of achieved meaning, we also pay attention to the different variation of these sentence patterns and the relationships between them.Chapter IV of this dissertation considers the focus assignment of the relevant components of the sentence patterns. On the basis of the focus assignment study, we also discuss different views on the evolutionary process of the achieved "Shi…de" sentence patterns in the Mandarin Chinese grammar circle. We argue with real language data that different theories like "object addition" theory, "state-of-affair sentence" theory, and "movement" theory are all problematic. At the end of Chapter IV we will further discuss the nature of "de" in achieved "Shi…de" sentence patterns.Chapter V mainly explores the grammaticalization process of the two groups of achieved "Shi…de" sentence patterns--- the group of sentence patterns ending with "de" and the group of sentence patterns with "de" in the middle. For the first group, we choose the achieved "OShiSVde" sentence pattern and the achieved "OShiAVde" sentence pattern. For the second group we choose the achieved "SShiAVdeO" sentence pattern and the achieved "ShiSVdeO" sentence pattern. We argue with the two groups of sentence patterns that achieved "Shi…de" sentence patterns come from "Shi…de" copulative constructions. At the end of Chapter V, we use tables to illustrate different grammaticalization processes of the achieved "Shi…de" sentence patterns.Based on Chapter V, Chapter VI further considers the grammaticalization of the achieved "Shi…de" sentence patterns. We reconsider the methods we apply, and further discuss issues like the relationship between the grammaticalization of the copular "Shi" and the evolution of the sentence patterns, the source of the achieved meaning, the function of the achieved meaning in the grammaticalization process of the sentence patterns and the driving dynamics of the grammaticalization process.Chapter VII generalizes the whole dissertation. We point out the five innovative methods and thinkings in the dissertation and bring forward the topics for further studies.