A Comparative Study Of Yu Shi Ming Yan 's Comparative Sentence

Yu Shi Ming Yan is short stories in the vernacular set written by Feng Menglong fromDynasty Ming. There is a total of40articles in the work, it has some noteworthy places: firstly, itis a collection of vernacular short stories of Song Yuan Ming, provides a precious heritage forChinese Ancient Novels; secondly, Feng explains his own profound understanding through hiswork; thirdly, many chapters in the novel is won universal praise. Together with Jing Shi TongYan and Xing Shi Heng Yan, they are often named “San Yan”(“三言”), represent FengMenglong’s literary achievements. Feng emphasizes on respect for human feelings and values inhis works, the moral value he advocated is contrary to feudal traditional idea. As the first one in“San Yan”(“三言”), it has attracted extensive attention. Comparative sentence is one commonsyntax semantic sentence category. It is mainly used to express comparison. It contains thecomparison and comparative reference. Comparative mark is one of comparative references.Thispaper regards Yu Shi Ming Yan as the object of the study, summarizes two patterns of comparisonfrom Yu Shi Ming Yan by using comparative mark as the standard: the “Bi”“(比”) sentence; othercomparative forms. The “Bi”“(比”) sentence is labled as “Bi”“(比”). Other comparative formscan be divided into four types according to the comparative marked words: by adjective, verb,preposition and adverb. We count up its number and analyse its structure to describe thestructure and function of every comparative sentence in Yu Shi Ming Yan by using the methods ofcombining forms and meanings. We reach the conclusions that: the types of comparativesentence are various, and it keeps some classical sentences in the article; there are four types inthe “Bi”(“比”)sentence, it has five components in semantic: the subject, the object(thecomparative object), the comparative point, the comparative value, the comparative word, it isused to compare in pragmatics; In other comparative sentences, like the “Bu ru”(“不如”)sentence of the “Ru”“(如”)sentence and the “Yu”“(于”)sentence when W is adjective havepositive feature. The syntactic and semantic type of the “X” and the “Y” are usually notcompletely consistent, thus the comparative sentences show the asymmetry; the adverbs ofdegree comparative sentence mainly include three kinds: a high degree, degree of variation, aslight degree. In brief, this paper reveals the comparative sentences in modern Chinese, so that itcan reveal the historical development of the law of comparative sentences and help solve therelative problems about the comparative sentences by using viewpoints of system anddevelopment.