Modern Chinese Causative Sentence

Guided by the theory of Construction Grammar,Case Grammar,cognitive linguistics and three-dimensional grammar,the dissertation makes a full demonstration of the syntactic distribution and the semantic features of the causative verb-copying construction.And meanwhile,it examines the realization methods of the causative meaning in this construction,which deepens the study of causative verb-copying.The paper consists of five chapters,forewords and summary.The paper is organized as follows:The first part defines the causative verb-copying construction and the range of this study.It also provides the background,the material source and the significance of the study.The second part introduces the literature reviews of the causative verb-copying construction,and points out the merits and demerits.The third part deeply analyzes the syntax and semantics features of the causative verb-copying construction,to discuss its verb selection and the types of the objects. Moreover,it compares the different characteristics of causative verb-copying construction and non-causative verb-copying construction in semantics.The fourth part demonstrates the realization methods of the causative meaning in the construction and explores the basic but different semantic meanings in the construction.It also compares and anylazes the semantic meaning of its two sub-types.The last chapter presents a summery of the main conclusions and summarizes the merits and demerits of this dissertation.