The Research Of Comparative Category And Progressively-comparative Construction

This paper, drawing on the frame of Construction Grammar Theory, makesa reasonable explanation of the inheritance, forming cause and mechanism among different variants of progressively-comparative construction. In the past, the scholars thought non-comparative thoroughness meaning construction was evolved from progressively-comparative construction. However, we think all typical construction "yi M bi yi M+VP"(including A,B,C constructions in the paper) express "progressively-comparative meaning". And non-comparative thoroughness meaning (D construction) has the qualitative change. Although its construction meaning can’tbe directly concluded from "yi M bi yi M", it is the non-typical but more typical construction. The paperisdivided into6chapters.Chapter One mainly states the significance of selected topic and summarizes the predecessors’ research findings.Chapter Two introduces the source of Construction Grammar Theory, Goldberg’s Construction Grammar Theory and Lu Jianming’s Construction-Chunk Theory. We think the comparative category is a archetype concept which is continuous and with fuzzy border. The scale is the basis of forming a comparative sentence as a basic image schemas in human’s cognition.Chapter Three drawing on the frame of Construction Grammar Theory makes the qualitative diagnosis and analyses the three typical variants of progressively-comparative construction. At the same time, it makes a cognitive exploration of the inherit relationships among thethree variants and meanwhile gives a reasonable explanation.Chapter Four talks about qualitative change of non-typicalconstruction (D construction), which means “non-comparativethoroughness meaning”. It can’t be deduced from “yi M bi yi M”, so it’sthe more typical construction. This chapter explains that the origin ofqualitative change of non-comparative thoroughness meaning is thedeficiency of “scale order”.Chapter Five analyses the construction characters ofprogressively-comparative construction and the convention meaningof construction. It discriminates the difference between structure andexpression on “progressively-comparative construction” and “yue laiyue”&”dou” sentence.Chapter Six summarizes the whole paper and puts forward theviews which is that non-typical construction is more typical than typicalone.