The Historical Evolution And Part Of Speech Of "Zai"

Chinese “za（i在）”is a long history of wods, the Xi zhou dynasty in oracle appeared "zai"usage. Qin and Han dynasties “zai” developed many new semantic content, besides can beused to say premises can also be used to indicate time, scope, position, the state ofsignificance. Qin and Han dynasties," zai " can be expressed and people or things relatedplace, time and other semantic composition, also can be expressed and events or actionsrelated place and time significance, the meaning is in “A in B” basic forms of life form.“Zai”the model makes the adverb “in” generation, Qin and Han dynasties,“in” appear and actionrelated state of meaning, the meaning is the adverb “zai” produce the semantics of the figure,“NP+zai+VP” is the adverb "in" produce syntactic environment, to modern Chinese,“zai”and some of the more developed derived within the word usage became attached tocomposition.The modern Chinese “zai” the usage and meaning inherited the qin and han dynasties“zai” the usage and meaning and based on this, a certain development, but the basic usage nottoo big change. For the “in” such a in the historical development of the long existing words,for its part of speech research need to use the synchronic and diachronic the point of view of acombination.“Zai” the main forms of the three," zai+NP",“zai+NP+VP”,“VP+zai+NP”. In the Qin and Han dynasties, the three forms of the “zai” speech is a verb. And modernChinese “zai” is the main form of the three, and semantic and without big changes, so fromthe point of view of history in modern Chinese “zai” the part of speech of the verb is also. Atthe same time, according to the experts about the division standard of parts of speech, thispaper in the plane of the synchronic, the modern Chinese of the “zai” is a verb. Did nothappen like “yu（于）”,“ba（把）”,“cong（从）” from the verb grammar into prepositions.