A Study On Oracle-bone’s Non-ritual Verbs Sentence

The sentence research is an important part of the study of grammar. With a history of three thousand of years, Oracle-bone is the language material that has a variety of sentence structures and is an indispensible part of the study of ancient Chinese sentence. In1953, The Yin Ruins in oracle bone inscriptions is published by Guan Xiechu, which is the pioneer of Oracle-bone syntax research. Afterwards, based on previous studies, many scholars continue to explore the Oracle-bone syntax and we can tell that some findings are indeed very valuable. However, it is worth noting that most scholars are more concerned about Oracle-bone ritual verbs while the study of Oracle-bone’s non-ritual verbs are not thorough enough. Actually, we all understand that the ritual the verb has unique research value due to the nature of the ritual itself, but in order to create a complete system of Oracle-bone inscriptions, the study of non-ritual verbs should not be ignored. Therefore, this dissertation chooses the non-ritual verbs from the book The Study of Oracle-bone Verbs Vocabulary written by Chen Nianfu as the research objects and will select106of them. Based on Heji, Tunnan, Yingcang, Dongjing, Wright, Tianli, Su and Huadong, an exhaustive study of each verb sentence structure will be made. By applying transformational generative grammar, distribution price syntactic theory and three planes syntax theory, it will finally sort out the Oracle-bone ritual verbs sentence, hoping to provide some reference to the study of ancient Chinese sentence.The whole dissertation contains ten chapters.Chapter one is the introduction, which tells the previous Oracle-bone syntax research achievements, the significance of the topic of this article, the research method, the scope of the study and the problems that appeared as well as their solutions; Chapter two is about the analysis of the class of taken verbin the sentence; Chapter three is about the analysis of the sports verb in the sentence; Chapter four is about the analysis of action verb in sentence; Chapter five is about the analysis of imperative verbs, perceptional verbs in the sentence; Chapter six is about the analysis of psychological, changeable, status verbs in the sentence; Chapter seven is about the analysis of life and behavior verbs in the sentence; Chapter eight is about the analysis of production behavior verbs in the sentence; Chapter nine is about the analysis of military behavior and interrogative verbs in the sentence; Chapter ten is a summary of Oracle’s non-ritual verbs sentence.