Chinese Push-pull Verbs

In this paper, tuila(??) verbs are the objects as the research object, there are seven words total, including tui(?), la(?), che(?), zhuai(?), chen(?), jiu(?) and tuo(?).On the basis of the three-dimensional grammar, the study discusses the tuila(??) verbs from their syntactic distribution,semantic features and pragmatic functions.The thesis analyzes the syntactic distribution of the tuila(??) verbs, we also study the verb-object type and the verb complements. We find that tuila(??) verbs mainly appear in position of predicate, and then appear in position of subject, object and attribute. The type of the verb-object is mainly noun object. The verb complements are quantity complement, resultant complement and directional complement.The thesis describes semantic features from the certain points on the body,action goals and verb-objects. We describe each verbs semantic features in detail. It has same semantic features: the action was stated by the verb, the purpose of the action is to make the object move or change states.The thesis studies the pragmatic function of the verbs from the rhetoric and style.Metaphor and personification is widely used of tuila(??) verbs. Corpus-based statistics shows that the verbs have the disproportion in style. Then we analyze the reason of the disproportion is the characteristic of the verb and style.The thesis studies the semantic development of the tuila(??) verbs. We describe the semantic change of tui(??) and la(??) in detail. Then we analyze the reason of semantic development is metaphor.