The Adverb "" Grammaticalization Of Semantic Research

The thesis concentrates on Jiu, which is an adverb with various semantic features and functions in modern Chinese. During the pre-Qin days and the Two Hans Dynasties, Jiu was a verb. Later,after a long history's evolution, Jiu can also be a conjunction, preposition, adverb etc. And the semantic features and functions of Jiu were enriched. This thesis considers that the adverb Jiu was grammaticalized from the verb Jiu during the Wei Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty. From the Yuan Dynasty semantic features and functions of adverb Jiu became more consummate and affluent. The construction of Jiu+Vp is the reason of Jiu's grammaticalization and Jiu+Vp is a verb-object word group. According to the grammaticalization of Jiu, we consider that the basic meaning of adverb Jiu is Transition of the two actions before and after Jiu. Time, logic, confine, partical etc are all derived from the basic meaning. And all these semantic features are combined with subjectivity.