A Study On The Birth Of New Verb-object Syntactic Structure Of Three Types Of Affirmative-negative Parallel Sentences

When a linguistic phenomenon was produced and spread, then it may perish or be adopted into the modern Chinese system, every step has its constraint factor. The affirmative-negative parallel sentences could be divided into three different types; their common point is able to accommodate diverse syntactic structures, including unconventional verb-object collocation. The thesis aims to study the development of the unconventional verb-object structures, make predictions of its development in scientific way, and more important is, focusing on discussing whether these unconventional verb-object structures can be used independently from the syntactic environment, if not, what are the constraint factor. The innovation of this thesis is the dynamic study on the function in breeding new syntactic structures of the affirmative-negative parallel sentences, which few people involved in this area before. This not only can deepen the understanding of this format, but also have a positive significance for enriching and development the theory of the applied linguistics and social linguistics.This thesis consists of five chapters:In chapter one, analyze the syntactic and semantic features of the affirmative-negative parallel sentences. The affirmative-negative parallel sentences contains affirmative-negative type or negative-affirmative type, there are three main kinds, the "Vp de bushi A, shi B",such as“哥吃的不是面,是寂寞’’(sentenceNO.1),"NP+shi+VP+A,(NP)+bushi+VP+B" or "NP+bushi+VP+A,(NP)+shi+VP+B", such as "你是吃饭,不是吃桌子”(sentenceNO.2);"VP+NP+VP+A+bu+VP+B", suchas“娶妻娶德不娶色’’(sentenceNO.3). At the same time, makes a comparative study of these three types of sentences and traditional parallel sentence.In chapter two, explored the unconventional verb-object structures in the affirmative-negative parallel sentence, focuses on the analysis of the analogy mechanism in the affirmative-negative parallel sentence and the deviations of the unconventional verb-object structures from the conventional verb-object structures. At the same time, analyze the understanding mechanisms of the affirmative-negative parallel sentence which contains unconventional verb-object structures.In chapter three, with the help of meme theory and questionnaire investigation, analyze and discuss the communication situation of the affirmative-negative parallel sentences. The questionnaire conducts an investigation through recognition and usage degree of the affirmative-negative parallel sentences to language users. According to the results of the survey, sentence NO.1performs better than the other two types of sentences in these two aspects, the recognition of sentence NO.3performs better than sentence N0.2, while the usage degree of sentences NO.2is slightly higher than sentence NO.3. In this chapter, we combine three indicators--the longevity, fecundity, copy-fidelity,to analyze the results of the questionnaire survey.In chapter four, observe and describe the process of the emerge of the new collocation in modern Chinese system, and practically investigate the situation of the unconventional verb-object collocation into modern Chinese language system. Besides, combined with the preamble research, analyze the factors which restrict the independent use of the unconventional verb-object collocation in the affirmative-negative parallel sentences. There are six constraint factors:the internal, the deviation degree of unconventional collocation to conventional collocation, decoding degree of difficulty; the external, the social need, the copy and propagation range size; the internal-external, whether the sentence or the collocation is easy to memory, or easy to imitate.Then, combine these six factors to evaluate the ability of breeding new verb-object syntactic structures of the affirmative-negative parallel sentences, thus to make predictions about the possibility of verb-object temporary structures entered the modern Chinese system.In chapter five, further discuss the significance and necessity of this study, at the same time, analyze the problem of this paper.