A Study On Contracted Structure

Contracted structure, a common and peculiar grammatical phenomenon in Chinese, is made up of two pair of predicate structures, and in which exist distinct logic relations."Jin"means"compact"and refers that there exists no phonetic stop in the structures;"Suo"refers that some components are contracted. As a kind of special syntactic structure in Chinese, contracted structure has its own characteristics, but, just as other syntactic structures, it also functions as sentence-making component, such as subject, predicate, object etc. Contracted structure can become a sentence by itself, i.e. abbreviated sentence, when it is read with appropriate tone.The former researches on contracted structure mainly fall upon its being a sentence by itself, i.e. the researches on abbreviated sentence. The researchers study abbreviated sentence from its definition, type, semantic meaning and its ownership and they have achieved a lot. But still there have a lot to study on contracted structure.The author of present thesis, starting with the nature and characteristics of contracted structure, applies the criterion of form and content to define contracted structure by contrasting it with successive structure and concurrent structure, then analyzes its inner and outer grammatical relationship from the grammatical function, logic and semantic aspects. Finally its importance in Chinese grammar is studied from pragmatic value, especially the influence on its economic value and the choose and construction.