Modal Constructions In Modern Chinese

This dissertation mainly uses functional linguistics and cognitive linguistics to make a monographic study on the modal construction in modern Chinese.This paper mainly concerns on the inner relations,the expressions of modal meanings,and the pragmatic functions of modal constructions in modern Chinese,and explores their evolution paths,mechanisms and motivations diachronically,with the aim of a preli-minary study on modal constructions in modern Chinese from overall.This article is divided into seven parts.Apart from introduction,summary and conclusion,the core content includes four parts,and eight cases are discussed.Chapter 1 is the introduction part.This part is to sort out and summarize the main research objects,research significance,research methods and research scope of this article,and then explain our corpora's origin.Chapter 2 is an overview section.This chapter reviews predecessors' researches on modal constructions and summarizestheir properties,features,scope and categories.The core of this paper is from Chapter 3to Chapter 6.Each chapter studies two casesseparately.Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 discusses deontic modal construction.In Chinese,the proposal or exhortation modality expresses a deontic modality,and in pragmatics,it expresses the meaning of advice or exhortation.There are two cases in this chapter.One is "zui hao" and the other is "ding hao." The internal structure of "zui hao" is a combination of the most advanced adverb "zui" and the adjective "hao".Its semantic meaning is at a lower middle level.In pragmatic,it expresses a suggestion or an exhortation."Dinghao" is similar to "zuihao",as they have the same consistent in internal structural relations,modal semantic expression,and pragmatic functions.They are only different in terms of styles,regional distributions and grammatica-lization of dialects.Chapter4 discusses the construction of negative evasion modality.This set of modalities can be divided into "fanbuzhao" categories and "yongbuzhao" categories.The expressions of "fanbuzhao" and "yongbuzhao" are negations of deontic modality,which means "unnecessary,"and expresses the ethical meaning of morality.The difference between them is that "fanbuzhao" is more subjective but "yongbuzhao" is more objective.Chapter 5 discusses the modal constructions which express polarity estimation.The two cases in this chapter are "chongqiliang" and "liaobuqi".Both "chongqiliang"and "liaobuqi" are extremely large estimates of modalities,and both of them represent an estimate of a certain condition of the upper limit.This estimation expresses an epistemic modality.The acquisition of polarity estimation meaning is caused by the compression of the construction.Chapter 6 discusses the approximate amount and speculationof modality in modern Chinese.Quantum phrases always express high-level modality meaning after constructing.This chapter focuses on the case of "shiyoubajiu" and "baifenzhibai"."shiyoubajiu" can mean both the proportional scope and the sense of epistemic modality."baifenzhibai" is similar to "shiyoubajiu",but at the modal semantic level,"baifenzhibai" is slightly higher than "shiyoubajiu."Chapter 7 is a conclusion,summarizing the main content and core viewpoints of the full text,and pointing out the deficiencies and the issues that can be explored in the future.