A Study On The Diachronic Evolution Of “writing” Type Verbs In Ancient Chinese

Ancient Chinese vocabulary as a central part of ancient Chinese vocabulary system, doing the plane of investigation can illustrate the evolution of Chinese vocabulary in the different historical periods, in turn, relate to Chinese vocabulary as a whole. And verbs in syntactic structure have the strongest activity ability and have very important position in the syntax, so this article selects "writing" type of commonly used verbs as the research object, using the theory of semantic field, adopts the quantitative survey statistics, description and interpretation combining,the combination of diachronic and comparative methods, enumerating the common verbs in different periods from the corpus of the typical representative cases, describes and analyzes the sememes and the use frequency of various members synchronicly and on this basis reveals the veins of the diachronic evolution,summarizes and shows the characteristics of the evolution, explains the reasons of the evolution.This paper divided into five parts. We state in the first part the "writing" type verbs research purpose, research value and research methods, enumerate the corpora which are used in this paper and introduce diachronic studies of ancient Chinese verbs.In the second part, we show the distribution of "writing" type verbs from the pre-qin to the wei jin southern and northern dynasties in general,and analyze the sememes and the use frequency of this kind of verbs statistically.On the synchronic plane, we differentiate and analyze the members of "writing" type verbs in each period semantically.And we illustrate the characteristics of the verbs on the grammatical functions from the angle of the combination relations and paradigmatic relations.The third part is the core part of this article.We study on the development of the "writing" type verbs change from the perspective of diachronic:(1) the usage of old words;(2) the generation of new meanings and new words and their usages;(3) the structures of the new compound verbs and the ways of extending in meanings, eventually we create the evolution of the "writing" type verbs.The fourth part is on the basis of the diachronic investigation of the "writing" type verbs.We clarify the replacement process of the verbs,summarize the evolution characteristics and probe into the causes of the evolution occuring.The fifth part is the conclusion which we summarize the full text.