"X Shi" Turning Words Which Span Two Word Classes Of Adverb And Conjunction

This paper mainly focuses on the Chinese "XShi" turning words, containing phrase, conjunction and adverb of the same shape. It is composed of four parts apart from the preface and the conclusion.Part one sums up the nature of "XShi", comparing the nature and the meaning of "X" with that of "XShi", showing the great role which "Shi" has played in the process of the forming of "XShi" turning words. Classifying the position of "XShi" during the system of turning words in term of the predict, also suming up the expressing effect and using restrictions of every type of "XShi" turning sentences of two or more clauses.Part two investigates the "JiuShi" and "ZhiShi" turning sentence of two or more clauses, suming up three kinds of semantic relations between the two clauses of "JiuShi""ZhiShi" when they express turing relation, the frequency when they appear at every situation, and pointing out that the proportion of the adverb and the conjuction is different. The reasion why they have these differences is that the semantic basis is different. "Jiushi" "Zhishi" have adverb and conjuction twice types, and tend to chose different type depending on the logic semantic basis of the clauses they connect.Part three discusses the "HaiShi" and "DaoShi" turning sentence of two or more clauses: analysising the feature of the front clause "p" and the late clause "q" of "HaiShi" sentences, pointing out that sometimes the meaning of "still" as an adverb has weaked in "HaiShi" sentences; suming up the two elements of "DaoShi" sentences, because the situation that they appear in the sentences is different, so "DaoShi" sentences can be devided into two types.Part four mainly sums up the sourses of "XShi" turing words, pointing out that their forming depends on the deep semantic basis, meantime deviding these semantic basis into two big groups; suming up the mattens they formed, trying to find in term of historic sight the reasion why they have differences, in addtion, also suming up some main form mechanisms.