Imperative Sentence Combining In Modern Chinese

This thesis studies imperative sentence combining in modern Chinese, including integrating simple sentence into complex sentence and collecting sentence into sentence group. Imperative sentence expresses some psychological states such as: wishes,intentions etc. Its direction is from world to words. In other words, it is world that satisfies people's wishes and intentions, not the opposite. So it has nothing to do with truth or falsehood. However, some relation types of imperative sentence combining in modern Chinese connote apparent true or subjunctive mood. So imperative sentence combining rejects these relation types and the uninflected words which show these relation types. If a speaker employs imperative mood, he is hardly to use these uninflected words, vice versa. This shows that there exists a certain collocation ability between sentence mood which forms substantial sentences and semantic relation types of complex sentences--sentence groups formed by simple sentence. Based on plenty of corpus, this thesis employs the quantitative and qualitative methods to explore the semantic relations and combining means of imperative sentence in modern Chinese. The thesis also uses research foundings about imperative sentence,complex sentence and sentence group, Small Triangle Theory, Genre Theory, and Speech Act Theory to explain the deeper reasons.