The Construction Analysis Of Modern Chinese Nominal Predicate Sentences

Sentences and idioms such as"Today's Sunday"and"One Word,Nine Ding"are used in many situations in life,and are more common in written language.Compared with the general sentence whose subject is a noun and predicate is a verb,this kind of sentence whose predicate is partly acted by a noun or nominal elements,which is called nominal predicate sentences in this paper.According to construction grammar theory,this kind of sentence can be regarded as a construction.The article tries to summarize the different construction meanings and classify them,and analyzes the formation characteristics of different construction meanings to further discuss the mechanism and cognitive motivation of the formation of the verb-like sentence construction.This paper is divided into three parts:introduction,main body and conclusion.The introduction part mainly focuses on the reasons and values of the topic selection and the theoretical methods used in the article research.The main part is the second chapter,the third chapter and the fourth chapter.The second chapter is the framework and foundation of this thesis.First of all,clarify the development of construction grammar,which is the theoretical support of the article.The difference and connection between the construction grammar and generative grammar,which is the mainstream in the field of linguistics at present.After the construction grammar comes to China,Chinese scholars apply its localization to the description and interpretation of some Chinese language phenomena.The second is the development status of the nominal predicate sentences,which is the research center of the article.The study of nominal predicate sentences in Chinese linguistics has gone through several stages,such as the debate on whether or not the noun or the nominal elements can be the predicate.Why it can be the predicate.The description and categorization of the nominal predicate sentences.In the categorization part,scholars mostly study from the perspective of structure and function,mainly describing the structure type of the predicate part and the structure type of the subject part;the semantic type of the predicate part;the semantic relationship between the subject and the predicate;The function of the whole sentence.The third chapter is the focus of this article.With the support of the previous construction theory,it can be determined that the construction of general nominal predicate sentences NP₁+NP₂ and the special nominal predicate sentences idioms.According to the combination of NP₁ and NP₂,the general nominal predicate sentences have five construction meanings:equivalence description,identity characterization,natural attribute description,dynamic change description and orientation existence description.The requirements for entering NP₁ and NP₂construct are summarized.The fourth chapter attempts to explain the formation of the above-mentioned five constructive meanings and the special-nominal predicate sentences in the context of cognitive linguistics.The special-nominal predicate sentences idiom can be established because of the psychologically accessible and diffusion-activated metonymy mechanism.The construction of"topic-illustration"of NP₁+NP₂ conforms to the mechanism of"reference-point construction",which includes the equivalence description,identity characterization,natural attribute description and orientation existence description.The dynamic change is explained by the subjective movement of the human brain on the abstract path,which is caused by the mental scanning.In addition,at the end of the NP₂ sentence,the modality auxiliary word"?"and the addition of the adverbs"?","?"are closely related to the"distance-mark correspondence rate".Finally,the conclusion summarizes the classification of nominal predicate sentences in modern Chinese under the background of construction grammar theory and puts forward the deficiencies in the research.