Modern Chinese Gradient Adverbs Study

The research object of this paper is a kind of gradation class adverbs(simplified as GCA) such as"zhujian, jianjian, zhubu"which includes the semantic general character of gradation. we discriminates relationship of GCA's nature with several concepts like modality, process, dynamic/static, manner", and divides the manner into the concrete manner and the abstract manner, and converges the GCA the abstract manner adverb.What leads to the ambiguity of"zhujian hong qilai"? Probe on this question brings us GCA's two sketch models among sentences, the pattern attribute and eventalization bring selection and restriction function on adjective matching, split up certain intersecting words, and enable some sentences to survive."Is gradual change equal to slowly change?", we deduce the answer and cognitive reasons through several items as GCA adjoining matching with adverbs containing"fast"meaning,etc. We proposes 3 subordinate characteristics of GCA, and contributes their syntax performances, we distinguish"change frequency / change degree"and proposes the viewpoint that GCA display as microstep but not intermediate frequency change.The article has differentiated"zhu/jian","zhu X/zhujian"these two groups , and then make an exploration of GCA on layer of concurrent modern Chinese from aspects of the literary style distribution, grammar matching, controllable or non-controllabe semantic situation, pragmatic sketch model, and summarizes four continual series sequences.we give a inspection of GCA's diachronic development on several dimensions, exerted to exploring the change motivation, the connective mechanisms and the general rule, we summarized grammaticalization paths of various members in GCA, and forecast to a certain extent GCA's possible future changes.