A Multi-perspective Study And Error Analysis About "Benlai" And "Yuanlai"

From the semantics, syntax and pragmatics three planes, we have a comprehensive study on "benlai"(本来) and "yuanlai"(原来). This paper not only describes their unique characteristics, but also compares their similarities. On the basis of ontological research, we describe the error types which made by the foreign students when they learn this pair of synonyms.Then we also analyze the causes of error and give our teaching suggestions.Including the introduction and conclusion, the paper is divided into six parts.Introduction:This part describes the importance of this research and summarize the existing research results.Then introduce the data sources and methods.Chapter I:The meaning of "benlai"(本来)and "yuanlai"(原来) are investigated in semantics. First of all, we respectively analyzes the semantic features of the attributive "benlai"(本来)and "yuanlai"(原来).By comparison, we find that there are differences in the semantic features of two words. The attributive "benlai" contains these implicit semantic features:[+inner point],[+continuity],[+temporality]. While "yuanlai" only has [+temporality]. Then we analyze the semantic background of "benlaiadv."and "yuanlaiadv".According to the meanings of adverb "benlai", it is firstly divided into "benlai1","benlai2" and "benlaia". Then analyze their semantic background one by one. For adverb "yuanlai", We seek out its complete type and simple type in the practical use. Although there are semantic similarity between adverb "benlai1" and noun "yuanlai", there are following three differences in semantics:whether there is any change about things, time span length and semantic focus.Chapter Ⅱ:Syntactic structures of "benlai"(本来)and "yuanlai"(原来) are systematically investigated. Firstly, we summarized the headword types of the attributive "benlai" and "yuanlai". We found that their matching ability to headword are different. The headword of "benlai" are mostly abstract nouns, while the headword of "yuanlai" are diversified. For adverb "benlai", we made a comprehensive description about its syntactic characteristics according to its meaning. As for adverb "yuanlai", we describe its syntactic characteristics from two aspects:appearing with other kind of adverbs and with other modality adverbs. We Find that the adverb "yuanlail" is superior to the most of the other kind of adverbs and modal adverbs in the word order. Finally syntax differences of the adverbial "benlai"and "yuanlai" are described.Chapter III:We discussed the pragmatic and textual functions of adverb "benlai" and adverb "yuanlail". We hold the opinion that they both have the function of highlighting and specifying the presupposition. In the chapter connection, they have explanatory and interval repeated function.Chapter Ⅳ:Through a questionnaire survey to foreign students and searching HSK dynamic corpus, calculate the error rate in "benlai" and "yuanlai" of foreign students. The conclusion is that the error rate in the word order is relatively low. But the errors are relatively high because of their vague grasp at two word’s meanings and syntactic features. We summed up three types of errors:misuse, sequence errors and omissions. Then the reasons of cause errors are briefly analyzed and put forward our teaching advice.Conclusion:Review and summarize the main conclusion.