The Investigation On The Location Word As Complement In Classical Chinese

The location word, a relatively special kind of Chinese noun, can be situated the beginning of the sentence as a subject or adverbial adjuncts, as well as follow the verbs as a complement or object. However, more deep study is made on the former aspect than the later (especially on the location word as complement in classical Chinese) , which is to be thought as the defect of die study on the location word.Based on the ZuoZhuan and ShiJi that are die two typical works in ancient times, the thesis makes overall investigation on the location word as complement appearing in the books, analyses thoroughly theirs sentence pattern, dug deeply dieirs semantic relations and change forms. Then, by comparison the ZuoZhuan with the ShiJi, die thesis tries to explain the condition and die reason of the position changed of die location word.Thereby conclusions are made as follows: first, in classical Chinese, whether the location word as complement is led by preposition mirrors die overall look of the given age and die audior's habit in writing, and has to do with die feature of die verbs and the location words diemselves. Second, die semantic relation of die location complement is complicated. The location word in grammar links directly with die verbs, though, die position of die subjects and the objects is really a highlight in terms of semantic relations. Third, there are some change happened in die position of die location word, among which some location words have trend to be followed die verbs, while some begin to be situated the front of the verbs as a adverbial adjunct.The thesis is made up of five parts:The first is about die preface.The second is about the sentence pattern of the location word as complementThe diird is about die semantic relation of die location word as complement.The fourth is about the position changed of die location word. The fifth is about the conclusion remained.