Study Of Auxiliary Words In The Spoken Parts Of Yuan Drama

"Yuan Drama"(hereinafter refer to as" Yuan") is a Yuan Drama collection, which is compiled by Zang Jinshu during the Ming Dynasty, it reflects the characteristic of Chinese between the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. In this article, we make the exhaustive statistics and description of auxiliary words in the Spoken Parts of Yuan Drama, detailedly analyze different usage of the auxiliary words, We make a diachronic and synchronic comparison between Collection of Dun Huang Bian Wen, The Song Dynasty Literature, Thirty Categories of Miscellaneous plays in Yuan-Dynasty Block-Printed Edition Throughout the ages, Qing Ye Zhong and the Spoken Parts of Yuan drama in order to reveal transitional characteristics of the Spoken Parts of Yuan Drama in the development process of chinese function words.The paper is divided into seven chapters altogether.The first chapter is a summary to the classification and research contents of auxiliary words in the Modern Chinese period, we set forth the research reason, the research meaning, research method and auxiliary words’ classification of the paper. In the second chapter, we analyze structural auxiliary word in the Spoken Parts of Yuan Drama. The number of structural auxiliary word "De" is the most, its usage is also the most abundant, its usage is similar to the usage of "De" and "De" in some usage. In the third chapter, we analyze dynamic auxiliary word in the Spoken Parts of Yuan Drama. dynamic auxiliary word mainly express action completion, action continuation, action result and action tendency, The number of dynamic auxiliary word "Le" is the most, the usage of "Jiang","De" and "Zhe" is more abundant, In the fourth chapter, we analyze things auxiliary word in the Spoken Parts of Yuan Drama. The number of things auxiliary word "Le" is the most, The number of "Qu" is least. In the fifth chapter, we analyze tone auxiliary word in the Spoken Parts of Yuan Drama. The number of tone auxiliary word "Ye" is the most, the usage of tone auxiliary word is quite abundant, the usage of "Ye","Zan","Li" and "Ya" is also the most, they are used to indicating indicative mood, interrogative mood, exclamatory mood and imperative mood. In the sixth chapter, we analyze other auxiliary word in the Spoken Parts of Yuan Drama. other auxiliary word is divided into likening auxiliary word and approximate number auxiliary word, The number of "Ban" and "Lai"is the most. In the seventh chapter, we make a comparison between the auxiliary word of the late tang dynasty, the song dynasty, the yuan dynasty and the auxiliary word in the Spoken Parts of Yuan Drama, the auxiliary words are at the transition stage of adjustment and continuous improvement in the Spoken parts of Yuan Dramas,the characteristics of the auxiliary words is continuous and reflects the characteristics of Chinese between the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, the characteristics of its auxiliary words is closer to the characteristics of the Ming Dynasty corpus, the auxiliary words in the Spoken parts of Yuan Poems reflects its own characteristics that other corpuses can’t reflect.