The Study On The Passive Sentence Of Han Fei Zi

Study on language of Han Fei Zi is relatively weak in the history ofChinese，although some scholars have mentioned the use of passivesentence of Han Fei Zi， but no monographs and papers hascomprehensive description and in-depth study on it. Considering of itsspecial background and important value of language study，paper usesthe three-dimensional theory as the theoretical basis，draw lessons fromthe previous methodology results of Chinese passive sentence，usesquantitative and qualitative analysis，static description and dynamicanalysis of passive sentence of Han Fei Zi to make an exhaustiveinvestigation on this important Work of the pre-Qin period，discuss theuse of Chinese passive sentence in this period and the grammaticalizationprocess in history of Chinese，thus make a glimpse on developmentcharacteristics of Chinese passive sentence in ancient times. Analyze thesyntactic structure of Han Fei Zi passive sentence，we find the frequencyof use of “yu”-passive sentence is the highest，which accounts for half ofall the passive sentences，types of syntactic structure of “wei”-passivesentence is the richest， which show that the use of “wei”-passivesentence was commonly used，and the usage of “bei”-passive sentencewas still not mature，it had not been a passive symbol and could not beused with the behavior of action.Quantitatively count and qualitativelyanalyze the patient subject，agentive objects and predicate of Han Fei Zipassive sentence，we find that the composition of patient subject andagentive objects is almost nouns，form of predicate is also flexible，itcan be used with auxiliary，adverbial，object，complement. Finally， based on the results of static analysis from the diachronic perspective，study the grammaticalization process of four kinds of passive sentence ofHan Fei Zi，make clear its status and role of the history of Chinesepassive sentence development.