Adverb "Only" A Combination Of Relations And Pragmatic Features

This article selects the adverb " before " in modern Chinese as the object of study, "before" usually appears in simple sentence and complex sentence, but our study mainly investigates single sentence, also the clause which structure is equivalent or grossly equivalent to a single sentence. Based on Xing Fuyi's the Theory of Clausal Pivot, the control of sentences theory and "two-triangle" method for the study, this article discusses from macroscopic perspective for the application of the adverb " before ". The research is conducted on a detailed corpus analysis, focusing on semantic association ingredients and pragmatic features of the adverb " before", in order to make a better description or explanation of the diversity of use .The article takes syntactic mechanism as its focus and emphasizes the observation of the governing force of the syntactic rules over different grammatical factors, so as to deepen the study of language noumenon. The main contents of this article include:1.Adverb "only" a combination of relationsIn this section, first, the writer aims at a full and deep comprehension of the grammatical meaning of the adverb "only", which helps us for further research; Second, Of "only" before and after the inspection of structural components, "it" is not closely combined with the verb .you can insert a variety of components, such as: the manner, time, premises, object, probably and scope.2.Adverb "only" Pragmatic characteristicsFirst, mental domain involves in the situation like the concept of psychological content. Psychological symptoms include two parts: information (including belief) and emotion. based on an analysis of the emotional information to the adverb " before ": it can express both negative information and positive information; Second, "Only" intended to focus in accordance with the table "only" grammatical meaning of the different and sometimes fell "only" sometimes on the first fall of "only" on the latter; Third, the constraint of context in sentence structure, Mr. Xing Fuyi said that "the sentence is the smallest unit of the exchange of ideas, sentence should meet the need of people' daily exchange. Chinese sentences have the feature of conciseness, in a certain context, the meaning of the expression should express clearly, and do not pay attention to the complete form. Sometimes for the purpose of some kind of expression, one can break the restriction of the syntactic structure. Thus the syntactic structure is restricted greatly by the context. The adverb "only" is no exception, in certain context, the subject, the verb and the object after the verb can be omitted in the sentence led by the adverb " only ". Fourth, wavering factor of the adverb "only". In general, it includes the wavering between verbs and other adverbs. The adverb " only " is more flexible to serve as an adverbial, when the object of the sentence is served by the word expressing length of time, the adverb " only " can be placed behind the verb but before the object, to strengthen the emphasis of focal information; when the adverb " only " is used as adverbial with other adverbs which express the length of time, in this case, the adverb "only" can be wavering after the adverb, However, there are exceptions.