Degree Category And Its Syntactic Realization In The Complement System In Modern Chinese

This paper, based on the theory of Semantic grammar, in compliance with combination of form and meaning, description and explanation, as well as of static state and dynamic state, illustrates and analyses the Chinese Degree Category and its syntactic realization in the complement system in Modern Chinese.The main contents and innovations of this paper could be summarized as follows:1. This dissertation makes a comprehensive study on Chinese degree category. Firstly, based on the analysis of the relationship between degree category, the number category and quantity category, we put forward a new concept measure category. Secondly, we fully conclude the syntactic realization of degree category in Modern Chinese. We also make a thorough analysis of all kinds of phrases which have degree meaning for the first time. Thirdly, we construct a category system of degree. We consider that action has degree too and make a classification system of verb according to degree meaning. Fourthly, we raise nine expression types of degree category. Finally, we summarize the natures of the degree category for the first time, and conclude the characteristics of the degree category on the basis of the predecessors.2. This dissertation systematically studies the complement system of Modern Chinese from the perspective of the degree category for the first time. The related researches include recategorizing the complement system and discussing the relationships between degree and various kinds of complements, which could contribute to a better understanding of the types and mechanisms of expression in Modern Chinese complement system, and rich the studies of the degree category. We have analyzed two different semantic types of predicate-complement structure clearly for the first time, which are single semantic predicate-complement structure and complex semantic predicate-complement structure. Furthermore, we have raised two new concepts-degree meaning directed to the predicate of complement and self-contained degree meaning of complement.3. The dissertation sets up the classification standards of degree complement according to formal and semantic matures for the first time, and therefore exhaustively finds the members of degree complement in Modern Chinese. On the basis, two hierarchical classification systems have been set up in different angles.4. Massive corpus calculation and analysis have been done by using of Computational Linguistics's automatic words segmentation technology. Based on the large-scale corpus survey results, a comprehensive analysis of the combination laws of complement and predicate also has been done for the first time.5. The dissertation tries to fully explain the generation mechanism of the complement. According to the Idealized Cognitive Model (ICM), the paper classifies results to different types, and further analyzes the relationships between different natures of results and degree.6. The dissertation has also concerned about the dynamic changes of the degree complement and analyzed the new members of degree complement comprehensively for the first time.