A Study On Interrogative Sentences Of "The Wizard Of Oz"

"The Wizard of Oz," a book in the mid-Qing(Qing Emperor Qianlong twenty-seven years), its author is Li Baichuan. Famous modern literary historian Mr. Zheng Zhenduo regard it with "Dream of Red Mansions", "The Scholars" as the mid-Qing three novels. "The Wizard of Oz" as part of the mid-Qing fiction world situation, language are from the language of daily life, there are more spoken dialogue material, in particular the interrogative distinctive, able to reveal the clearing system to the middle of the interrogative context of the evolution of modern Chinese having good language research value."The Wizard of Oz" contains a lot of questions, and the species is very rich. We will book as interrogative study, based on qualitative and quantitative statistical research on the use of exhaustive research methods on which the more than 3000 cases interrogative correlation analysis, and sketched out a "Wizard of Oz" in the interrogative system, and Find out from the salient features "the Wizard of Oz" interrogative system:In the use of interrogative pronouns "He" department, how "department," that "the Department," even(what) it "department," many "line," who "lines, etc. Especially Interrogative pronouns, which can be used asks sentences and rhetorical questions. Among them, " what " system and how, " Department of interrogative pronouns highest frequency.The use of adverbs in doubt, "The Wizard of Oz" has the classical color of doubt adverb "Qi" in the mid-Qing slightly faded sign."The Wizard of Oz" at the end of doubt sentence Modal also shown in the use of distinctive features: the end of the questions most frequently sentence Modal "me" is the "Wizard of Oz" appeared; with classical statement Interrogative sentences end color word "yeah ", " Down ", " carry ", " strike " has less use cases, showing signs of a recession; to reflect the identity and status of the characters, and also use some Dialect Question Modal Word with regional color " to ", " mile ".Overall, "The Wizard of Oz" in modern Chinese interrogative system has been relatively close to some of the sentence and ask the relevant standard are inherited by modern Chinese, for example, "what" system, "even(even)" system, that " Department, "how" department, "who" lines, "a few" lines, "many" inherited a lot of these questions are pronouns in Modern Chinese. But some sentence and then ask marked with ancient Chinese and Middle Chinese relics, interrogative pronouns " An "," Yan "," what "," rather "questions adverb" Qi "," still ", Interrogative word" Jesus "," peace "," carry "," stop ", ask pros sentence" VP No "is used, etc. All of these are reflected in the mid-interrogative clearing system distinct inheritance and transition.