On The Diachronic Development Of Verb Overlapping And Its Grammatical Features In Modern Chinese

The article is on the basis of the existing research results, combined with Grammaticalization theory and Verb-complement structure theory, according to corpus fact, making a thorough inquiry on the grammatical evolution law of verb reduplication AA, ABAB, AAB and AABB, in diachronic and synchronic aspects.First of all, through the study of the definition, nature, AABB type's affiliation and verb reduplication forms, the verb reduplication is reasonably defined. Verb reduplication is affiliated morphological overlapping, which belongs to the category of the body and taken as a grammatical way to qualify the original verb. It can be called as quantification, including the short-time body and the delay time body. The short-time verb reduplication includes three forms as AA, ABAB, AAB, the delay-time verb overlaps includes only one form AABB.Then the article focus on the short-time verb reduplication semantic development in the diachronic aspect. The short-time verb reduplication sprouted in the Tang and the Five Dynasties, developed in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, matured during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. At the same time, the article figures out the source of short-time verb reduplication, which originated in Ancient Chinese delay-time verb reduplication, rather than V - V form off "-". And according to the corpus fact, the study of the grammatical evolution law of short-term verbs reduplication in the diachronic aspect toke the word "see" as the main object, and other words as subsidiary, demonstrating that there is a close relationship with the establishment of Chinese verb-complement structure between the short body verb reduplication's leapfrog development since song and Yuan.Again, in the diachronic level, the article researches the delay body verb reduplication usage, which produced in the Warring States period, stagnant until the Han and Tang, rapidly developed during the song and Yuan Dynasties, and basically matured in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. And this chapter studies the corpus of delay body verb reduplication, mainly starting from two angle as its syntactic function and overlapping verb number. Delay-body verb reduplication syntactic function was gradually perfect since Song and Yuan, serving as the complement ingredient in the Qing dynasty; Before Song and Yuan dynasties, there are just a few verbs can be superimposed as AABB, but after the Song and Yuan and the Ming Qing, it began to be doubled and redoubled.Fourthly, through the investigation of the corpus of modern Chinese verb reduplication, combined with statistical data, more comprehensively, this article presents the grammatical features of four kinds of verb reduplication, from which we can see these syntactic functions continued most figures during the Ming and Qing dynasties, which is the inheritance and consolidation of its diachronic characteristics.Finally, through the comparison of the grammatical features of the verb reduplication in modern Chinese, the four kinds of verb reduplication have one common point. That is, acting as predicate components is the most important syntactic function, but its differences are particularly apparent and complicated, namely there exists syntactic imbalance in each form's internal part and between the four forms. There are reasons. First, there are different characteristics (such as the difference between monosyllabic and disyllabic, transitive verbs and intransitive verbs difference) with the composition of base verb itself, which leads to the verb reduplication coupling with some syntactic differences. In addition, short-time verb reduplication can express specific action in general, so its syntactic function as the predicate is stronger than delay-time verb reduplication; delay verb reduplication always describes the state which caused by prolonged or repeated verbs, so its syntactic function as the adverbial modifier is stronger than short-time verb reduplication.