The Research Of Adverbs On The Book Of Liang Dynasty

The Book of liang Dynasty was written in Sui Dynasty and finished in early Tang Dynasty, which is a historical document on the history of Liang Dynasty. For the present, researchers pay much attention to collation, collection and hermeneutic on historical documents, while the grammatical research on those documents is far away from enough, thus we select the adverbs on the Book of Liang Dynasty to do some research.This thesis consists of three parts:1. In the first chapter, we make a overall and systemic description and classification of adverbs on the Book of Liang Dynasty, trying to draw the outline of basic aspect of it. There are 632 adverbs in the Book of Liang Dynasty, which are divided into eight categories, such as adverbs of time, adverbs of scope, adverbs of degree, modal adverbs, mood adverbs, link adverbs, negative adverbs and adverbs of indicating and substituting.2. In the second chapter, we analyse the development of the adverbs on the Book of Liang Dynasty and reveal it's position in the history of Chinese grammar through historical comparision and synchronic study. In the whole 632 adverbs on the Book of Liang Dynasty, there are 427 adverbs belonging to remote ancient Chinese and 205 adverbs belonging to middle ancient Chinese. Some of them come from remote ancient Chinese, some of them display the aspect of middle ancient Chinese, some of them are germinations of some adverbs in recent Chinese. And there are 200 disyllabic adverbs in this book, among which 79 disyllabic adverbs belong to remote ancient Chinese, occupying 39.5 percent, and 121 disyllabic adverbs belong to middle ancient Chinese, occupying 60.5 percent. They reflect the disyllabic feature of middle ancient Chinese in some degree.3. In the third chapter, we select some adverbs in the Book of Liang Dynasty to case study, trying to draw their grammaticalization. And we induct three genres of adverbs' grammaticalization, that is the reanalysis on syntactic deck, the reanalysis of semantic direction and synonymous compound.