The Diachronic Investigation Of The Noun Act As Adverbials In Modern And Contemporary Chinese

Using the methods such as static description,dynamic contrast,synchronic investigation,diachronic comparision and statistical analysis,deviding the historical evolution into two stages:modern and contemporary,this dissertion aims to conduct a comprehensive and depth study of the noun act as adverbials.According to three dimensions which are grammatical category, functional classification,the frequency of the noun act as adverbials, thirty lexemes will be chosen from the reconstructed noun system, which comprise quantified noun and unquantified noun, quantified noun are further classified by biotic noun, abiotic noun and abstract noun, unquantified noun are further classified by temporal noun, local noun and other uncountable common noun.The Beijing University Corpus of Mandarin Chinese,builded in1992,will be regarded as the source corpus, and newspapers or magazines is added,such as "the New youth","the An Hui Patios","the Eastern Miscellanies","the Anti-roman".The diachronic investigation of the the grammatical function of noun can give the following conclusions:1.the diachronic manifestation for the function of noun(1)According to dataIn general, the proportion of these thirty noun act as adverbial continues to rise. Respectively, from the modern times to contemporary times, the proportion of countable noun show little change:the abilities of biotic noun and abiotic noun to be adverbials are relatively weak, on the contrary, the abilities of abstract noun are relatively strong; and the proportion of uncountable noun scaled up10percent.(2)According to outside formMore nouns hold the basic adverbial function by the mark "de";some of noun can directly modify the central words; the relationship between the noun and its center words become much more flexible; in contemporary times,the new outside form arise:some borrowed from the classical Chinese, some hold the particular meaning through particular form.(3) According to lexemeA large quantity of new term who can act as adverbials, has arisen in contemporary times, some are related to high technology, and some new term, as the mainstream of the market economy, enters into our ordinary life. In a word, The above phenomena has close relations with the people’s life and production. 2.The factors influencing freedom:Biotic Degree; Typicality; Quantificational Degree;Detached Degree.3.Syntactic distribution:the syntactic location is related to the ability of collocation between noun and quantifier:the stronger this ability is, the easier the noun choose the syntactic location.4.the selection of the mark "de":It is easier for unquantified noun and abstract noun to use the mark.