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Chinese Standard Sentence Word

Posted on:2012-04-20Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D L YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205330335480827Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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Complementizer is a functional category which occupies an important position. We choose the Chinese complementizer as the object, carding the Chinese complementizer in the diachronic angle, and having a systemic description and analysis. There are three parts in the thesis.The first part is the introduction, which summarizes the current situation about the complementizer at home and abroad. It also puts forward the research thinking, method and object in this thesis. The second part that is the core of the paper includes the first four chapters. This part makes a classifiable and period research about the Chinese complementizer. Chapter One mainly studies on the ancient Chinese complementizer , like"Zhi","Zhe","Suo", and discusses the syntactic structures they have. The three complementizers make the minor sentences substantivize, and lead them as the argument of the predicate. Chapter Two is about"Dao". We carding"Dao"in a diachronic angle."Dao"was used as a notional verb at first. When it collocated with other verbs, the sprechen meaning reduced and"Dao"become a complementizer at last. Chapter Three studies"De", which existed in three structures:"N de V","VP de","NP+VP+de"."De"has a inherit relationship with"Zhi". In addition , in the structure"NP+VP+de","de"leads the sentence usually used in the legal documents. Chapter Four is about"Dao", in the structure"Vdao+minor sentence","Dao"leads content object sentence. As the change of the sentence which leaded by"Dao", the meaning of"Dao"is vignette gradually.The last part is the epilogue. This part mainly summarizes the Chinese complementizers and classify them in the angle of undertaking the argument or not, have the Proposition or not. And compares the complementizers in English and Chinese , in order to find their similarities and differences.
Keywords/Search Tags:Complementizer, Self-Designation, Transferred-Designation, Zhi, Zhe, Suo, Dao, De
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