Predicate Synonym Differentiation From The View Of Thematic-role

There are a lot of dialect archives in the Southern Min. Lijingji published in 1566 and Mantianchun published in 1604 are the representatives of the early period. The thesis will compare the two dramas with the present dialect in Quanzhou in order to describe the grammar changes during the last 400 years.As far as the aspect of verb is concerned, the continuous, progressive and inceptive aspects of the modern Quanzhou dialect started to appear at the Ming Dynasty, and their grammatical marker咧is from adposition处through grammaticalization. Iterative aspect was still obscure in Ming Dynasty.In the respect of adposition, we investigated the developments and replacements of participant preposition, time and place preposition, dative and passive preposition, We also analyzed the similarities and dissimilarities of postposition咧and pre-postposition compounds between Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Xiamen.For the adverbs, not only had the Modern Quanzhou dialect inherited some adverbs used in Ming Dynasty, but also a large number of new adverbs gradually appeared in the modern Quanzhou dialect. Some of the newly adopted adverbs are created by way of collapse, among which include collapse between old and new words and collapse between Putonghua and dialect. Adverbs show a tendency towards disyllable.As for the verb-complement structure, the negative form of the potential complement had been adopted 400 years ago, but the positive form not."V会(得)C"is probably analogically created from"V勿会(得)C". The marker of stative complements in Ming Dynasty was得, but now mainly遘.