The Constuction Meaning Of Bei Sentence

On the basis of the results of former researches, this thesis uses Talmy`s semantics of causative and other relative theories on large-scale corpus analysis and finally discovers that the basic construction meaning of"bei"sentence is a causative situation based on movement schema. Then it derives into three patterns: the causative situation, the undregoer-event and descriptive sentences to make all the three a complete semantic system.The subject is self-determined and self-sustained, which are qualities of typical agents, while it excludes static and dependency, which are properties of objects. The noun after"bei"is a qualified cause. It represents a causative situation with a self-determined item`s movement event as its caused event. When representing a causative situation based on movement schema it is afterwards-reporting and highlights Intention. These can be explained by distance iconicity.The undergoer event is very similar to a causative situation but not one of this. It occurs independently but has influence, which is often unhappy, on the undergoer. It includes three categories: the feeling sentence, the common undergoer and the"bei ba"structure.The descriptive sentences do not take any time. They are depictions of situations or characters or statements of facts. Among the three, the causative situation is the base of the other two, which links all them together. Although the undergoer-event is not a causative situation, it always shows the effects of the events on the psychological state of the undregoer in the context and forms a completer causative situation. In many cases, these sentences can hint the impacts on the undergorer. The situations described in the descriptive sentences are usually the out-come of some causative situations and can be changed through a causative situation.Thus, the only the"bei"sentence representing a causative situation with a self-determined item`s movement event as its caused event can be changed into"ba" sentence and vice versa. The other two categories can not be changed into"ba"sentence.The construction meaning of"bei"sentence is the product of the combined efforts of the structure meaing and the verbs` features. The undergoer roots from the low transitivity of verbs and the descriptive roots from front-limited or none-limited verbs.Then we bring about a small discussion on the so-called meaning color of"bei"sentence, and find it a part of construction meaning.