Chinese Three Associated Format, The Amount Of Areas Inspected

Based on the theory of the cognitive linguistics and taking examples for youAyouB buAbuB and yueAyueB, this paper tries to investigate the relationship between the correlative structure in Chinese and the quantity. According to the investigation we get the following conclusion:On the surface structure, youAyouB puts A and B together, but on the semantic dimension, it is a way to express the subjective increased quantity, and this kind of expressing is based on a kind of human's cognitive modes that one plus one is more than two.On the surface structure, buAbuB puts A and B together, but on the semantic dimension, it is a way to express the subjective decreased quantity, and by decreasing the quantity, we may get two kinds of results, one means the quantity is suitable, and the other means it is departure. It depends on the context that which kind of meanings buAbuB expresses.yueAyueB is a structure to express that the change of the quantity of B relies on that of A. The structure can be written as "yuel+Ajective phrase(+None)/Verb phrase+yue2+Ajective phrase/Verb phrase."In a short word, no matter it's youAyouB that expresses the subjective increased quantity, buAbuB that expresses the subjective decreased quantity or yueAyueB that expresses that the change of the quantity of B relies on that of A, all these three correlative structures have the relationship with the category of quantity.