AStudy On Five Sentence Patterns In Liaozhai Folk Play Collection Written By Pu Songling

Liaozhai Folk Play Collection (short for Folk Play) is a novel written around the first start of Qing Dynasty by the famous literature writer Pu Songling. Folk Play is the important and valuable lingustic materials for us to study the later period of modern chinese, especially the Zichuan dialect of Ming and Qing Dynasty. Because of its spoken Chinese feature, it retains many dialectal words as well as dialectal sentence patterns that were widely used during Ming and Qing Dynasty. This study mainly focuses on the sentence patterns system in Folk Play. From this, this study is valuable to the study of the history of chinese grammars as well as that of chinese dialect grammars.This study focused on five sentence patterns appeared in Folk Play, including predicate-complement patterns, comparative patterns, disposed pattern"(ba)把", passive pattern "(bei)被" and positive-and-negative question patterns, all of which are the hotspots of chinese sentence patterns research. On the basis predecessors and the principles of form and meaning combination, this study gives a synchronic plane, and a quantitative and qualitative description of these sentence patterns in Folk Play. This study comprehensively describes the structures, the semantics and the pragmatics of these patterns. Meanwhile, by linking the diachronic development of chinese sentence patterns, this study aims to reveal the changing features and the changing tracks of these sentence patterns by running through the consciousness that the study of chinese should get through the aged-old to today between materials and methods. The purpose of this study is to investigate the historical levels of the main sentence patterns that were used in Folk Play in the whole chinese sentence patterns diachronic levels in the development of history. The comparison with the same kind of phenomenon of the other contemporary vernacular literatures which reflect common language features, we can analysis and observe the regional dialect features and also the stylistic features of the sentence patterns in Folk Play. At the same time, through the cognitive analysis, to reveal the motivations and causes of different sentence structures and the function of expressions, thus to further strength the breadth and depth of the research. It also helps us to understand the grows and declines of the Zichuan dialect sentence patterns more and deeper and further clarify the evolution and development of these five sentence patterns from the modern chinese to present chinese. Thus to get a more comprehensive understanding of the certain development characteristics of modern chinese syntactic system itself and to get to know cognitive basis of some grammatical phenomena in modern chinese from one profile. On the basis of the materials in Folk Play, this study explores problems which are still not resolved in the study of chinese sentence patterns, and to get a detailed study and observation in order to promote the study in this area from one profile.This study consists seven parts.chapter1is the introduction part which includes a brief introduction of the language value of Folk Play and a brief review of studies conducted by previous scholars, and also includes an explanation of the significance of choosing this research topic as well as the methodology used in the study.chapter2is predicate-complement structure. On the basis of a detailed qualitative and quantitative classification and comprehensive description, the papar,discussed the inner link between the grammatical forms and the meanings and also the analogy between different grammatical forms in predicate-complement structure. We studyed the grammaticalization mechanism of predicate-complement structure, too.chapter3is the study of comparative patterns. Using the methods of quantity statistics and qualitative analysises, the study analyses the structural features and semantic features of every comparative construction in Folk Play, meanwhile, analyses each kind of sentence patterns of comparative sentences. Based on different meaning, the study makes thorough investigations and overall descriptions to the comparative constructions in Folk Play. The comparative constructions include equality and superiority. Then according to different words used in these sentences, we can give the various forms of comparative sentences some detailed description and analysis. According to our investigation, there are no significant differences in comparative subject X in all kinds of comparative sentences while the differences are mainly manifested in the benchmark Y and the comparative result W. Thus, we focus our study mainly on two aspects which are the benchmark Y and the comparative result W and at the same time pay attention to the usage of adverbs as well as to analyse and sum up the features that reflect in all kinds of comparative sentences in the affirmative, negative and question form, etc. What’s more, we pay attention to the combination of synchronic comparison and diachronic comparison.chapter4is a discussion of disposed pattern with“(ba)把”With the help of the calculator index technique, we described this pattern comprehensively and completely. This study also studyed the mechanism and motivation that causes the form of "(ba)把”pattern to change.chapter5is a discussion of passive patterns’‘(bei)被”.With the help of the calculator index technique, we describe the pattern comprehensively and give a synchronic plane,quantitative and qualitative description of the passive patterns "(bei)被”pattern of Folk Play. We tries to explain the reasions from the timeline and the types of writing.chapter6gives a comprehensive description and analysis of the positive-and-negative question patterns in Folk Play, and strive to get the inner motivation of its development and change. Then get through the evolutive features of the positive-and-negative question patterns.The last part is conclusion. To get an overall review of the discussed issues in all the chapters, and to clear up the developing features of the five sentence patterns in Folk Play, as well as put forward personal attitude to the study of dialectal sentence patterns.