The Syntactic-semantic Interface Study Of The Pronouns

With the gradually deepening of language research and the continuously increasing demand of natural language information processing, the study of lexical-syntactic semantic cohesion has become a hot topic in linguistic circle nowadays. As a basic unit in daily language communication, sentence patterns vary correspondingly. Past lexical-syntactic semantic cohesion study was usually based on certain typical semantic field, started from the angle of the correspondence relation of syntax and semantics, and there were few studies from the perspective of sentence pattern and sentence category. Actually, we can initiate the study of syntactic-semantic cohesion form the angle of various types of sentences and then summarize their common laws and characters. It is also a new viewpoint for lexical-syntactic semantic cohesion research. How can we use a sentence pattern as a breakthrough point to explore the meaning of the word sentence syntactic cohesion problem, meanwhile establish corresponding relation with other sentence patterns, and find out the similarities between the syntactic and semantic cohesion of each sentence pattern? These have been the theoretical issue in the field of Chinese Ontology Research and natural language information processing. Theory of semantics and grammar (Baojia Li 2007) emphasizes that the semantic feature is an essential property of human language, and believes that the cognitive network, which is based on the categorization and contextualization of cognitive symbol, is the foundation of establishing language system. In this thesis, guided by the theory of semantics and grammar, with the causative adjective-predicated sentences as the study object selected from modern Chinese, and with the Modern Chinese Dictionary (6th edition) as a closed area, Glossary of Causative Adjectives is established. On the basis of glossary semantic classification of the aforementioned list, and linguistic facts, this thesis, on one hand, explores the lexical-syntactic semantic cohesion mechanism and interactive relationship of causative adjective-predicated sentences from the internal point of view, on the other, compares with other types of causative structures, unfolds its universality and individuality, which enriches the category connotation.Firstly, based on the review of causative structures and adjective-predicated sentences, this thesis analyzes the nature of causative adjective-predicated sentences, defines them, reveals their components and syntactic features, and at last establishes the study object.Secondly, from the internal perspective, this study shifts the causative adjectives that could enter the inside of adjective-predicated sentences, consults the semantic features and syntactic functions of causative adjectives, and then compares them with the related word list to finally build the Glossary of Causative Adjectives, based on the Modern Chinese Dictionary(6th edition).The study find that in the cohesion of lexical-syntactic semantics in causative adjective-predicated sentences, whether the cohesion of lexical semantic features and semantic features of category, or the cohesion of category semantic features and semantic features of vocabulary, lexical semantics still plays the role of the underlying constraints.Finally, from an external perspective, typical causative structures in English are selected to make a comparative study with causative adjective-predicated sentences. According to the study, causative adjective-predicated sentences are in the most low-end causative structures and belong to the non-typical members, which have differences with typical causatives in syntactic structures and semantics. In addition, English and Chinese belong to morphological and lexical language respectively, whose causative adjective-predicated sentences are same in sentence patterns but exist a few differences in syntactic transformation. All these indicate that causative adjective-predicated sentences have common characteristics between English and Chinese in conveying semantic meanings, and further verify the universality of causative category and the diversity of causative sentences.In general, on the basis of defining causative adjective-predicated sentences and constructing glossaries, this thesis makes a comprehensive analysis of causative adjective-predicated sentences from the two levels on the internal lexical-syntactic relationship and external syntactic-semantic comparison, investigates the internal syntactic-semantic interaction which reveals its cohesive characteristics and semantic construction models, and indicates the characteristics of causative adjective-predicated sentences by contrasting external syntactic-semantic relationship. All these enrich modern achievements of Chinese cohesion. However, due to time, capacity and other aspects of constraints, this research is still relatively shallow, and there is further deepening space as well as a considerable number of researches to make, especially the internal lexical-syntactic interaction and the syntactic constraint on lexical semantics.