A Diachronic Investigation On The Conditions Of Common Mono Syllabic Verbs With Objects In Modern Chinese

The thesis conducts a diachronic investigation on the conditions of 113 common mono syllabic verbs with objects in modern Chinese.The thesis mainly studies and explores the evolution conditions of verb-object constructions consisting of the above verbs from the perspectives of the verb-object framework,the components of objects and the semantic types of objects,and also conducts a case study on diachronic conditions of the ability of the verb "zuo(坐)"to carry a location objects.The thesis is composed of six parts,including a conclusion.The first chapter is an introduction,which mainly gives a review on the study background and the current study situation of the present thesis,and an introduction of the related conditions,such as the study scope,the study methods,etc.The second chapter discusses the diachronic evolution conditions of the verb-object construction. The research finds out that there appears a brief tendency in the process of the development of the overall verb-object construction.Once,the verb-object construction owned diversified framework mode,such as "verb+a single object","verb+double objects","vreb+triple objects" and "poly-verb+an object",etc.In the process of evolution,"verb+a single object" and "verb+double objects" was simplified into a main form from diversified framework mode,"verb+triple objects" completely withdrew from being used,and "poly-verb+an object" once had a discontinuance of use. All of these proves that the verb-object construction in modern Chinese is tending to simplify.The third chapter discusses the diachronic evolution conditions of the components of objects. The investigation reveals that the components of objects tend to be diversified and complicated in the process of evolution.The research displays that the components of objects are words,phrases and clauses,among which words and phrases are major.The variety of the components of objects is embodied in that either words or phrases which can act as the lower categories of objects become more and more and the types become richer and richer.The complicacy of the components of objects is embodied in:1.a clause----the mostcomplicated component of objects began to own the ability to act as an object after the Song Dynasty;2.From the Yuan and Ming Dynasty,the number of phrase objects increased greater than the before,the distance between the use frequencies of word objects and phrases objects was rapidly shortened,their use ratio declined to 1.5:1 from 3:1,and the increase of the use number of phrase objects also verified the Complicacy of the components of objects because,without doubt,phrases in construction are more complicated than words.3.In the process of the evolution,the levels of some types of phrase objects became more,and the construction tends to be more and more complicated.The fourth chapter discusses the diachronic evolution conditions of the semantic types of objects. The author finds out that in the process of the development the semantic types of objects was basically steady and had not too much change.The semantic types of objects inspected in the thesis involves thirteen categories,among which ten categories appeared in the Pre-Qing Dynasty,and the material object,the means object and the time object were the new types which emerged later in the process of the diachronic evolution.All of those testify that the semantic types of objects in Chinese have been diversified since the beginning,the experienced change was small,which presents a basically steady development tendency.The fifth chapter is a case study.The author chooses the verb "zuo(坐)"as an inspection object, and makes a case study on the diachronic development conditions of the ability of the verb "zuo(坐)" to carry an object.The investigation reveals that the ability of the verb "zuo(坐)" to carry an object experienced a curvilinear development process,which grew out of nothing,from few to more,then descends from the summit.In such a curvilinear development process,the location arguments introduced by prepositions have been having an great influence on the ability of the verb "zuo(坐)" to carry an object.The sixth chapter is a conclusion,which summarized the main viewpoints of the whole thesis, points out the inadequate spots,and makes a initial plan of carrying out the following researches.Totally,the author obtains the following conclusions through conducting a diachronic investigation on the conditions of 113 common mono syllabic verbs with objects in modern Chinese: in the diachronic process of evolution,the verb-object construction presents a development tendency that the whole framework tends to be simplified,the components of objects to be diversified and complicated and the semantic types to be basically steady.