Research On The Expression Of The Grammatical Meaning:“Short Time,little Quantity” Of The Verbal Reduplication

In the history of Chinese grammar,the grammatical meaning of the verbal reduplication is a question which failed to reach a consensus for a long time.In this paper,we have made a thorough study and reacquainted on this issue.At the same time,we also focused on the specific expression of the grammatical meaning of verbal reduplication in the statement.In this regard,we have a thorough discussion about the grammatical meaning of the verbal reduplication from the point of space-time, evaluation, treatment and expression.The full text spread out with five chapters.The first chapter is the "Introduction", it mainly introduces the important and difficult points during our research, research object,meaning,research method and the source of corpus.The second chapter defines the concept and types of the verbal reduplication,regard it as an inflected form of Chinese verbs.And then,we illustrate the relationship between the grammatical form and the grammatical meaning from the perspective of linguistic theory.So we can conclude that the verbal reduplication also showing some kind of grammar meaning as an inflected form.At the last part of this chapter,we analyses the predecessors’ view of grammar meaning one by one,and get a preliminary conclusion:the grammatical meaning of the verbal reduplication is“short time,little quantity”.In the third chapter,the author explains the grammatical meaning in detail based on the second chapter.We think that the“short time,little quantity”can be understood from both narrow and broad sense,and we just analyses it from the broad sense.We also summarize the character of the grammatical meaning,it includes subjectivity,relativity,fuzziness and diversity.Recognition of the character is beneficial to our further analysis.The forth chapter is the most important part of this paper,it show the expression of the grammatical meaning of verbal reduplication by analyzing some sample sentence,we analyze it from four aspect:space-time, evaluation, treatment and expression.And a verbal reduplication can be analyzed from different aspects.The fifth chapter is the conclusion part,it summarizes the full text,and draw the conclusion that the grammatical meaning of the verbal reduplication is“short time,little quantity”,its specific expression in the statement are short time action,small number of action,small range of action,and so on.At last,we conclude the gains and shortcomings in this article.In this article,the author referenced a large number of documents and materials,and takeall verbs and their meanings in the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary as the analysis object of study.We inspected the actual case of each verbs which can be reduplicated as more as possible,and then we summarized the expression of the grammatical meaning of verbal reduplication in specific context.We hope that our work can be play a positive role in promoting the research on the verbal reduplication.