The Investigations Of Evolution Of Chinese Interrogative Sentence In Song Yuan And Ming Dynasties

The interrogative sentence is the basic sentence type which is divided according to the mood of the sentence.At present,the study of modern Chinese interrogative sentence has become a hot topic in the study of modern Chinese grammar.This paper selects representative literature language from Song Dynasty to Ming Dynasty,uses the statistical methods in the whole process of the investigation,to show the interrogative system evolution from Song Dynasty to Ming Dynasty as real and detailed as possible.This thesis consists of six chapters.The first chapter is the introduction,including Chinese interrogative sentence research purpose and significance,the history,current situation and research steps and methods brief explanation in song and Ming dynasties.The second chapter to the fifth chapter discusse the diachronic changes of four types of questions from the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty including special question,yes-no question,alternative question and A-not-A question in proper order.The second chapter,starting from the question focus,the interrogative sentence is divided into seven categories special questions about people,things,time,location,quantity,purpose and reason,ways and means.In each category,we conduct a statistical analysis according to interrogative pronouns,and the finding is that there are different kinds of interrogative pronouns in different periods for asking the same question,at the same time,the content of the same interrogative pronouns in different periods is also different.Furthermore,these differences cannot be reversible.The third chapter is starting from the adverb of yes-no questions,through the study of modal adverbs,we find that the adverb of mood appears frequently with the negative adverb in the yes-no questions during the Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty,causing a grammatical phenomenon of modal adverbs during the Ming Dynasty.The monosyllabic modal adverbs,like Mo(?),Qi(?),which appear in the form of Mobu(??),Qibu(??)to express interrogative mood during the Ming Dynasty.The fourth chapter,starting from connectives of the alternative question,we found that the most obvious change is in the sentence pattern of alternative question,which changed from pairwise to single,even absence.The fifth chapter,starting from the negative words used in A-not-A question,we found that A-not-A questions remained almost unchanged from Song Dynasty to Ming Dynasty,except negative words changed.The sixth chapter is the conclusion of this paper,which summarizes the basic conclusions of the main part.The article pointed out that the diachronic changes of interrogative sentence are mainly reflected in the changes of interrogative pronouns,interrogative adverbs,interrogative modal words and interrogative sentences,some of them disappears,some of them created.In other words,the alternation of the old and the new is an important feature in the development of Chinese in this period.From Song Dynasty to Ming Dynasty,interrogative pronouns generally become disyllabic,interrogative adverbs become solidified structure,and the role of modal particles from ancient Chinese in interrogative sentences is getting less and less important,instead,modal particles newly generated are abundant.