The Study Of Monosyllabic And Disyllabic Desiderative-Adjectives

This paper studies the syntactic and semantic features of the monosyllabic and disyllabic Desiderative-adjectives in Chinese.Parts of speech are a kind of prototype categories, which are gathered according to the family resemblance between words and words' distribution. The adjective in Chinese is divided into different sub-categories according to different criteria. It tells us that the knowledge to essential features of the adjective in Chinese is still to be deepen.According to the criteria whether an adjective has the [+desiderative] semantic character or not, we separate a kind of adjective that has the [+desiderative] character from the adjective in Chinese. We call it Desiderative-adjective. Desiderative-adjective is not a static classification in morphology, but a consequence of dynamic classification to adjective in syntax.The fore part of this paper depicts and analyzes the grammatical circumstances, the classification of the Desiderative-adjective in Chinese, and some related questions. The hind part takes monosyllabic and disyllabic desiderative-adjectives as example, put an emphasis on the analysis and contrast of the features between them.This paper believes that the Desiderative-adjectives usually appear in the construction "A ,L"and other relevant constructions. The Desiderative-adjective shows a tendency from strong to weak when they appears in different tone-type sentences: imperative sentences>interrogative sentences>declarative sentences> exclamation sentences. " &JL" has great effect on the realization of the[+desiderative] character. The Desiderative-adjective acts as a continuum from strong to weak in function. It involves some semantic features such as [+volitional/controllable], [+self-varying/cause-changing] and[+commendatory/neutral/derogatory]. The Desiderative-adjectives have distinctive special characters in part of speech. They have some restrictions in combination ability. Part of adjectives are restricted by style, quantum, word meaning and other factors, so they have no desiderative character. The monosyllabic and disyllabic adjectives have both generality and disparity in [+desiderative] character.