Research On The Reduction Of Adverbs In Modern Chinese

Decrmental adverb refers to a special category of adverb which contains limited. shorten, negative, small, low-volume and other reduce meaning operators.Decremental adverb can be classified from the perspective of meaning, quantitative quality style and pragmatic feature. Based on the perspective of meaning, decremental adverb is classified into range restricted adverb, positively weaken adverb, degree reduced adverb, logic reduced adverb and force reduced adverb. From the magnitude of quantity value, decremental adverb can be classified into more decremental adverb and less decremental adverb. According to the fuzziness of quantity value, it can be divided into solidified decremental adverb and diffuse decremental adverb. It can be classified into independent and non-independent decremental adverb on the basis of the independence of decremental adverb; and it can be divided into subjective and objective decremental adverb according to subjectivity and objectiveness.The phonetic feature of decreased quantity is reflected on stress, summation tone and pause. The common semantic feature is [decrease], decrease of time, space, degree and mood in a united level of quantitative quality. Then, three main syntactic functions are generating sentence alone, combining with verb phrases, adjective phrases, noun phrases and numerals and restricting, co-occurrence. Pragmatic functions are textual coherence, focus mark and communication from a pragmatic perspective.Linguistic subjectivity of decremental adverb presents in three aspects:reduction perspective, reduction emotion and reductions recognize.Communicative function can be reflected in abidance of the principles of cooperation and the principles of politeness. The metaccognitive generation process of decremental adverb is interaction procedure of subjective and objective.The asymmetry between increased quantity and decreased quantity is the result of semantic harmony and cognitive pattern restriction.