Study Of Verbs Bound With Adverbial In Modern Chinese

This paper mainly discusses verbs bound with adverbial which are a member of bound verbs family. Chapter 1 reviews the research status of verbs bound with adverbial, theory that will be used in discussion and corpus source. Chapter 2 defines verbs bound with adverbial from a new view by use of the concept of bound form and free form and proposes a practical method to test verbs bound with adverbial. Firstly, a test frame by asking and answering questions is constructed based on semantics to identify verbs bound with adverbial from bound verbs. Secondly, frequency statistics based on corpus data are used to exclude some verbs that have similar characteristics. This paper classifies verbs bound with adverbial into two categories according to two different standards. According to frequency, verbs bound with adverbial can be classified into high-frequency group and low-frequency group. According to components that verbs are bound with, verbs bound with adverbial can be classified into group only bound with adverbial and group bound with other components apart from adverbial. Chapter 3 describes syntactic and semantic types of verbs bound with adverbial in details and emphasizes non-adverbial phenomenon. Chapter 4 explains the characteristics of verbs bound with adverbial using theory of cognitive frame and saliency. Chapter 5 firstly discusses the factors that restrict the syntactic position of bound components. Affectedness of bound components, control power of agent and transitivity of verb make object position unavailable. The word meaning of verb and preposition, distance-iconic motivation and diachronic evolution of Chinese make complement position unavailable. Secondly it discusses unique Chinese adverbial structure from linguistic typology angle, discovering the constituent order of high-frequency group reflects generality of cross-language and that of verbs such as "treat" reflects individuality of Chinese constituent order.