The Study Of Noncooccurrence Of The Chinese Quantifiers Of Time, Action And Substantive After A Verb

The distribution of the quantifiers deserves deep study since there are abundant quantifiers in Chinese. To find out the features and rules of the distribution of the quantifiers will help us to understand the sentence structure as well as the syntax system in Chinese.In the past, no special studies were published except some discussions in ralative articles on the problems of the distribution of the quantifies . In this paper, we make a research on the features and the rules of the distribution of the quantifiers in Chinese and try to explain them by using the ralative theories of generative grammar and functional grammar, we find the rule that the noncooccurrence of the Chinese quantifiers of time, action and substantive after a verb is of the typological significance. In the thesis we also make a diachronic description on the word order related to the distribution of the quantifiers in Chinese and give a reasonable explantion. To find out some universals, we discuss the Chinese issue in cross-linguistic comparison. Five parts are included in this paper:Part 1 The connotation, the clasification and the selection of the meaning of the quantifiersWe discuss some basic problems! relative to the quantifiers such as the usage of vague quantifires, the cooccurance between the quantifiers and the nouns.Part 2 The distribution of the quantifiersIn this part we depict the distribution of the quantifiers in Chinese and point out the rules.Part 3 The restriction to the past-verb quantifiers of the case-assignorsThis part points out that the phenomenon that two quantifiers can't cooccur after a verb can be explained by case theory.Part 4 The restriction to the past - verb quantifiers of the infor-mation structureWith the principle of the information structure we can explain why a verb can't be followed by two quantifiers.Part 5 The tyological significance of the feature that two quantifiers can't cooccur ofter a verbIn the last part, comparing Chinese with English and other languages, we indicate the.typological significance on the rules of the distribution of the quantifiers. We discuss the relationship between the distribution of the quantifiers and the word order as well.