The Study On The Structure Of DENG (等)Signing Time And Its Sentence Type

The structure of DENG(等)signing time is a structure of preposition. It signs a point of time. The sentence type which contains the structure is widely used in Modern Chinese. Based on Hypothesis of the Pivotal Status of Clauses, with guidance of the Grammar Theories of Three Levels, this thesis carries on a multi-dimensional study on the structure of DENG signing time and its sentence type, trying to give a sufficient observation, description and explanation.This thesis is divided into seven parts.Introduction It explains the thesis's title on the structure of DENG signing time and its sentence type and limits the range of research, then briefly introduces the current research and the value of it. At last it introduces some language theories , the approaches and language sources which will be used in the thesis.Chapter 1 A syntactic analyses on the structure of DENG signing time and its sentence type. In this chapter, we place emphasis on the syntactic analyses on the structure of DENG signing time, and analyze the syntactic feature of DENG, the componential classes of X behind it, the noun of locality which occurs or disappears and its asymmetric phenomenon, and the syntactic function of the whole structure. Then we analyze the syntactic feature of "VP" behind the structure of DENG signing time, and probe into its "boundedness". At last we discuss the classes of the sentence type of DENG and also analyze its special use that can be conjoined with the connective construction "YI (一 ) .......JIU (就).....Chapter 2 The grammatical course of preposition DENG. In this chapter, diachronically we probe into the grammaticalization of DENG ,and discuss emergence of its verbal use, the formation of the serial predicate structure of "DENG+VP", semantic grammaticalization and reanalyses of the structure, the emergence of prepositional use of DENG and its grammatical degree. At last we conclude that DENGDAO(等到) is the result of the law of two syllables in Chinese.Chapter 3 A semantic analyses on sentence type of DENG. In this...