A Multiangled Study On The Sentence Type Of "VO₁要VO₂"

This thesis probes into the sentence type of" VO1 要 VO2" which is commonly used in daily spoken modern Chinese , folk song lyrics , advertisements , cross-talks and article titles. Based on the grammar theories of three levels , with the combination of form and meaning , of static studies and dynamic ones and of descriptiveness and explanations, The thesis carries on a multi-dimensional study on the sentence type of " VO1 要 VO2" , trying to give a sufficient observation , description and explanation .The thesis is divided into six parts:Introduction It introduces the current research on the structure of "Verb-object phrase" and the value of the research on the sentence type of" VO1 要 VO2 " ,then limits the range of the research. At last it introduces the approaches and language material sources which will be used in the thesis.Chapter 1 A syntactic analyses on the structure of" VO1要 VO2 ". First, we study "V", "O1" and"O2", "VO1" and"VO2" and"要" in the structure respectively. Then we discuss the transitional forms of the structure and the denying forms of the structure.Chapter 2 A semantic analyses on the structure of " VO1要VO2 ". We mainly discuss the semantic differences between "O1" and "O2" , the activate courses of "O2" . Chapter 2 ends with an investigation on semantic types of the object and semantic characteristics of the sentence type.Chapter 3 A pragmatic analyses on the structure of " VO1要VO2 " .In this chapter, we discuss the discourse surroundings in which the structure distributes, the restriction of the principle of economy of the language, the prominence of the focus of the structure, the restriction of the rhyme and its active inclinations in pragmaticexpressing.Chapter 4 A cognitive explanation to the structure. In this chapter, we discuss the metonymy types of " VO1要VO2 " and the conditions which these types formed. We conclude that the structure type of" VO1 VO2 " accord with The Principle of Iconicity and The Principle of Frame Being Bigger.Conclusion In this part, we point out that" VO1要VO2" is an objective existential language phenomenon in modern Chinese. It is a kind of compressive sentence which have no tense, its function is to express people's experiences, implying logical assumption, having syntactic collocations beyond the normal condition and abundant semantic intension , So the sentence type of " VO1要VO2" has its unique pragmatic value.