A Study On The Displacement Selection Of Negative Markers In The Sentence And Object

In recent years, more and more linguists who study on negative paid more attention to the different from the displacement of negative marks rather than the negative focus and negative scope. With the deepening and development of research, more scholars began to study the displacement of negative marks, case study increasing and comprehensive study becoming more comprehensive. However, most study of the displacement of negative focus on the level in phrases. Negative object clause which is widely used in English didn’t attract a lot of Chinese linguists. Therefore, we intend to discuss on the displacement of negative marks in object clauses.This is divided into six parts.The first part is introduction. We mainly introduce the previous studies which focused on the displacement of negative, and their deficiencies. Then, we present a theoretical basis for this paper.The first chapter focus on the grammatical elements choosing by negative marks. We define the nature and characteristics of object clause. And we discuss subject, verb and sentence category in object clause which are selected by negative marks.The second chapter analyzes the differences between the negative mark appearing at the main clause and at the object clause, the differences in the displacement of “no”, the differences in exchanging “no” and other negative marks, and the differences in the displacement of negative marks in object clauses.The third chapter discusses the problem that Chinese and English have lots of different details in negative clauses. We introduce the characteristics and trends of English negative clauses, comparing the discrepancy between Chinese and English, giving examples to illustrate several cases of English translation and Chinese translation.The forth chapter takes “You don’t think” as an example, discussing the development of subject-verb structures in main clauses becoming discourse markers, predicating the verbs which probably become discourse markers with the subjects. We mainly describe the details for the grammatical process of “You don’t think” and study from the view of pragmatic and textual.Finally, we summarize this paper and propose some unresolved issues.Through the study on the selection, the development and the compartment of negative marks in object clause, and predict the future direction to improve Chinese negation system.