The Contrast Of Instrumental Category Between Korean And Chinese

"Instrument" is a semantic category that we often use in our everyday performance. Many linguists have describes the instrumental category by using the theories of structural grammar, valence grammar, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics. On the base of former work, we contrast the instrumental category between Korean and Chinese.Firstly, we analyze the components that "" and "yong" can match with, and definite them as instrumental component and material component. According to the characters of the nouns in the structure of "N+", we definite the instrumental component as the concrete instrument and the abstract instrument, and concrete instrument can be divided into material instrument and body instrument, the material can be divided into concrete material and abstract material.Secondly, we contrast the auxiliaries and prepositions which can match with the instrumental component between Korean and Chinese. "."of Korean corresponds to "yong, na, yi" in Chinese, but "na, yi" don't correspond to "" all the time.Finally, we analyze the grammar positions that instrument components can appear in. The conclusion is that instrument components can serves as adverb, subject and object. When they serve as adverb, "" and "yong", and "zai" have the same functions. The instrumental components are limited when they serve as subject or object.