Studies And Applications Of Chinese Unique Adverbs Of Sphere

In this thesis: we have made a systematic discussion on "unique adverbs of sphere (or unique scope adverbs)"of Modern-Chinese (UA), which including a few aspects as following: semantic, syntactic, pragmatic, reduplications and conjoins. Based on this, we made a further discussion on how to apply our investigation in applied fields such as in second language teaching & learning. 1. To begin with the semantic features we establish the UA 's main semantic feature is[+exclude],based on which, we gave this word-class a subclasses, which would be quantity-limitable (QL)and non-quantity-limitable UA(NQL), by concerning whether they have the semantic feature as [+quantity-limited]. And we also verified these two subclasses by the view of syntactic forms. As a result, there are some similarities and differences between these two subclasses on the aspect of semantic orientation. From this point the two subclasses are similar in direction, number and hidden-visible. And when they are located in the same syntactical location there are some differences between them. That is when there is quantity constituents in the parts which the SA attributed, the QL can refer to both the whole structure and the quantity constituents, otherwise the NQL can only refer to the whole structure but the quantity constituents. 2. Take the view of distribution, all the UA can be located before NP except "专"and "专门", and all can be located before VP and PP. The only difference is that when there are quantity constituents in the NP, we will give priority to the QL. 3. At the pragmatic aspect, we take style and sentence class in our view. According to the analyses on the corpus, we found that "光", "就", "就是"have more colloquial style, and "仅/仅仅", "唯"have more written style, the rests...