A Semantic-Pragmatic Study Of Modern Chinese Sentences With Duplication

Verb-copying sentence is a relatively special modern Chinese sentence pattern.It refers to a single sentence or clause that serves as a verbal component of a predicate followed by an object,and then repeating the verbal component followed by a complement(or an object).In the verb-copying sentence,the two verb structures "VO" and "VC" co-occur,and the semantic relationship between the verb,the object and the complement is complex and diverse.This thesis takes verb-copying sentences as the research object,and builds a new classification system for verb-copying sentences on the basis of annotated corpus.The semantic research of the verb-copying sentence is carried out from the two dimensions of part and the whole.The semantic structure of verb-copying sentences is summarized.The semantic characteristics of its constituent components are analyzed.The pragmatic functions,the motivation of pragmatic functions,and the distribution of context are investigated.And we try to make a preliminary discussion on the interaction between semantics and pragmatics from a cognitive perspective.First of all,according to the "Syntactic and Semantic Category Marker Set",the646 cases of verb-copying sentence corpus collected and screened are marked syntactically and semantically and a new classification system is established.The classification system consists of two levels.At the first level,the thesis classifies 244non-repeated verbs extracted from the corpus according to the verbal nodule category,and classifies the verb-copying sentence into 8 categories: automatic core,cooperative core,speech core,serving core,encountering core,perceptual core,state core and other low-frequency verbal core;at the second level,the thesis classifies the sub-category according to the role category of the NP connected with the verbal core.The verb-copying sentence is divided into 95 sub-categories.Among them,there are10 sub-categories of automatic core as the core,45 sub-categories of cooperative core as the core,9 sub-categories of speech core as the core,4 sub-categories of serving core as the core,4 sub-categories of encountering core as the core,7 sub-categories of perceptual core as the core,8 sub-categories of state core as the core,and 8sub-categories of other low-frequency verbal core as the core.Secondly,based on the new classification system of verb-copying sentence,the thesis makes a comprehensive study of its semantics.Starting from the components,the thesis studies the distribution of semantic parts of speech and their typical semantic features,the referential nature of the object,the semantic direction of the complement and its category semantic features,as well as the semantic relationship between "VO" and "VC",so as to further reveal the basic semantic category and its internal hierarchy of the verb-copying sentence.Starting from the overall semantic structure,the thesis summarizes the semantic structure patterns of different types of verb-copying sentences,discusses the semantic characteristics of one kind of verb-copying sentences according to the semantic direction,describes and analyzes the category semantic features of each component in the combination.The results show that the semantic features of different types of verb are different.The semantic representation sequence of complement role is a dynamic combination of category semantic features based on the actual context.The object role has less semantic restrictions on the words entering the object.Basically,it can enter the structure as long as it meets certain category semantic features.In addition,the thesis also examines the relationships between the types of verb-copying sentences and the related role categories;semantic direction and semantic structure patterns;semantic relations and semantic orientation,or complement semantic types;semantic direction and complement semantic types.Finally,from a dynamic perspective,the thesis studies the pragmatic problems related to verb-copying sentences.The thesis analyzes the semantic self-sufficiency,semantic expression and reason explanation functions of verb-copying sentences in language expression and communication.The thesis further discusses the deep motivation of pragmatic functions from the aspects of language economy principle,conversational cooperation principle,communicative intention,long-distance causality and so on.Through the investigation of the context of verb-copying sentences,it is found that verb-copying sentences mostly appear in the texts expressing causality.Or show the reason,or show the result,or show the hypothesis,condition.In addition,the thesis attempts to explore the process of semantic and pragmatic construal of verb-copying sentences from a cognitive perspective.Specifically,guided by the event-domain cognitive model,the thesis studies the construction methods and characteristics of semantic representation of "(S)+ V1 +O1" and "V2 + C +(O2)" respectively;analyzes the interaction between the context of verb-copying sentences,and communicative intention,logical semantics,background knowledge or other factors from the perspective of relevance theory.This proves that discourse understanding and communication cannot do without cognitive reasoning.On this basis,the thesis attempts to explore the interaction between semantics and pragmatics.Due to the influence of various subjective and objective factors,there are still many places to be further improved in the thesis.In particular,the discussion on the interaction between semantics and pragmatics is relatively simple,and these problems need to be paid attention to and deepened by subsequent scholars.