A Study On Interrogative Sentences Terminated With "bu"(不) In Modern Chinese

Chinese Interrogative sentences have always been a hot debated issue in the previous researches within the field of grammatical study,and there were numerous scholars who had made considerable contributions.However,there are still a great many of discords between different positions.This dissertation tend to give a comprehensive description to one sort of Chinese interrogative sentences which ended with "Bu"(coded as "X-bu" in this paper) with aspects as syntax,semantic and pragmatic,and it is scoped as the following:Concludes the grammar significance of Chinese interrogative sentences "X-bu" comprehensively.Discusses "A-bu" interrogative sentences(one sort of "X-bu" interrogative sentences) which structured with adjectival predicates,with bringing forward the selectivity and limit of adjectival predicates by the situation which personal pronoun is subject.Concludes the nature of Chinese interrogative sentences "X-bu" with bringing forward the character with the ending "bu".Points out that although "bu" has not been totally grammaticalized as an interrogative modal particle,it already has some major features as modal particles,so that "bu" can be defined as "The atypical member in the negative adverb and modal particle world".Brings forward two pragmatic features of "X-bu" interrogative sentences which differ them from formal A-not-A questions:1,the more leisurely mood;2,the more obvious suggest and invite pragmatic feature.Concludes three relevant elements for the grammaticalizion of "bu"(refers to the ended "bu") in modern Chinese from both synchronic and diachronic aspects:1,the grammaticalizing of "X-bu" form;2,the continues of antiquity usage of "bu";3,the analogization of "ma"(吗) and "ba"(吧) in modern Chinese.