Adverbs Comparative Study Of Korea In Point

The concept of time, as the most fundamental category and tool for human being recognizing the world, forms the temporal background in language expressing. If time was described as a line, the time points just are those points in the line. According to the subjective understanding of human being, time can be devided into 'past', 'now' and 'future' with using the point of 'now' in the time line as the benchmark. Korean and Chinese are different kinds of languages, so the time-point adverbs of those have their own different characterizations. This dissertation focuses attention mainly to the Korean temporal words '(?), (?), (?), (?)' and the Chinese temporal words '刚才',刚,刚刚', both of which are the time-point adverbs expressing past. Those adverbs were analyzed in details from synchronic aspects.Firstly, aiming at the Korean time-point adverbs '(?), (?), (?), (?)' and the Chinese time-point adverbs '刚才',刚,刚刚', the features of those words were surveyed from the aspect of meaning theory, the meaning description for those words using dictionary was studied, temporal meaning in active using of those words was compared; Secondly, the distribution positions, restriction of existing together as well as pragmatic function of those words were surveyed from the aspect of syntax polishing. Here, the distribution position mostly refers to the syntax status, position in the text, position moving and polishing scope of those words. As for the restriction of existing together, this dissertation have completed the research from the aspect of existing together of those words with temporal words, verbs and tenses as well as the aspect of syntax selection. At last, it discusses the differences of the time-point adverbs expressing past in pragmatic. Research result of the present paper is of valuable and helpful for those Chinese students who learn the Korean and for those Koreans who study Chinese, in addition, the result is also a significant reference for those who are engaging in translation theoretical practice and language research work.