The Study On Adjectives In Zhanguoce

This systematic specialized research is on Adjectives in zhanguoce.Exhaustively studying on the syntactic and semantic function of Adjectives is the main content of this article. As the core of Predication Structures, Adjective-research focus is on Semantic and semantic valency. Both qualitative and quantitative analysis have been adopted to investigate. The full text consists of the following components:Chapter one:we explain the origin and significance of this topic,and analyze the research Status of ancient Chinese Adjectives and adjectives in zhanguoce, then explain the contemporary linguistic theory background on the Adjective and the methods of this paper.And to discuss the problem of how to to determine an Adjective, lastly Carrying on the explanation of corpus and style.Chapter two:"About the Classification of Adjectives" This part carrys on the multi-level division on Adjectives in zhanguoce.And has the statistic analysis to descriptive adjective and character Adjective.then draw a conclusion that the character adjective can be used in Comparative Sentence only for its comparative characteristics features,Descriptive adjective can't be modified by degree adverb because of its quantitative characteristics,so it can't be used in comparison.Chapter three:With the syntactic and semantic analysis of predicative Adjective, this chapter studies the syntactic-semantic features when a character Adjective is used as a predicate in a predicate structure.Its essential syntactic function is as a predicate stem reflecting predicative functions. An Adjective can act as the core of Simple Predication Structures,Subordinate Predication Structures,degradate Predication Structures and compound Predication Structures.according to their required complement, Adjectives is divided into single valence Adjectives,divalent Adjectives and trivalent Adjectives.separately format corresponding Adjective-Predicate Structure. Adjective-Predicate's semantic orientation is mainly to subject, occasionally to object, sometimes simultaneously to subject and object, emboding non unitary orientation.Chapter four:"On the syntactic-semantic analysis of Adjectives as Subject and Object"points out that Adjective as both Subject and Object have function of both reference and predicate.whire using as predicate subject or object, an Adjective includes two kinds of referentiality:self-reference and transformation-reference, without changing its part of speech.Chapter five:"On the syntactic-semantic analysis of Adjectives as Attributives, Adverbials and complements".Adjectives can also act as Attributives, Adverbials and Complements in zhanguoce. We analyzes their syntactic-semantic functions supported by the theory of semantic orientation. Adjectives can directly used as Adverbials or Components Adverbial modifier or modifier-noun phrase When using as Attributives,Adverbials or Complements. and they have different semantic orientations to a variety of sentence elements,and does not necessarily point to Their modified ingredients.Chapter six:"On the historical position of Adjectives in zhanguoce." This section includes a synchronical and diachronical comparison.The Adjectives in Zhanguoce are inheritance and development of the the developing process of Acient Chinese language history.The last chapter concludes the main achievements and significance of this research.Planning of further research is also proposed.