Early Childhood Complement Acquisition Case Study

The ability complement is a special form of the expression ability category in the Chinese language, referring to verbs or adjectives plus"get" or"not"to express possibility or impossibility again plus a complement of form. Limited by space and personal research interest, this text intends to make a case study on the children's acquisition of ability complement in earlier period.This text is divided into seven parts, wiht the first a preface, and the other six the main body of the thesis. The preface mainly looked back the past researches done in this field in domestic China, defined the term of "ability complement", and made explicit the textual range of research, corpus source and research method. On the basis of individual case corpus, Chapter 1 to Chapter 4 of the main body analyzes and discusses the four different types of the acquisition ability of complement for children, namely V get/not C, V get/not, V get/can not, V get/not wear, and by means of diagrams, reveals the characteristics of each type. Chapter 5 further probes into the restraints of children's acquisition of ability complement in earlier period from the perspectives of children's physiological foundation, language importation, social intercourse function and social intercourse and several angles, and cognitive ability The last chapter summaries the entire thesis and reiterates the author's viewpoint.With respect to the general trend of the acquisition ability of the complement, the total frequency variety is placed in to vibrate motion appearance and the acquisition circumstance is unsteady. In terms of the strategy of acquisition sentence type, the passive answer type surpasses the active expression type in most cases, the negation type surpasses affirmation type. In reference to the acquisition type, V get/not the C is best acquired, followed by V get/not and V get/do not, and V get/can not is acquired the worst. From the aspect of the concrete contents of acquisition, due to the restraints of social intercourse function and the social intercourse, children bear the characteristic of preferred acquisition, namely, verbs with more movements and those with a high frequency tend to be acquired first. As for acquisition misusing, V get/not C is misused the most, and the other three types are relatively less, because of the influence of the sequence of acquisition type,.