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A Study Of Situational Adverbs Of "just X"

Posted on:2022-12-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:P P LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2515306746465434Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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"Jiu X" type adverbs of situation are a small category of adverbs of situation,they have more real meanings,and basically they can only be used as adverbs to modify some verbs.The six adverbs of "jiu X" type selected in this paper describe the way and modalities of actions and behaviors,and have the same aspect in syntax,semantics and pragmatics,but the actual application of each word and vocabulary the evolution process is different.Therefore,this paper divides them into three groups according to their semantic.Starting from the two dimensions of synchronicity and diachrony,this paper conducts a comprehensive and specific investigation of these six adverbs of situation,and strives to discover their commonalities and also distinguish their personality,so that we have a deeper understanding of this kind of adverbs.This paper is divided into six chapters.The first chapter is the introduction of this paper,which indicates the origin and significance of this paper.It also summarizes the current research status of predecessors on adverbs of "Jiu X" type,clarifies the research object and research methods,and points out the corpus source and innovation of this paper.The second chapter mainly investigates the syntactic collocation and difference in meaning of the adverbs"Jiudi(??)"and"Jiujin(??)",focusing on the collocation pattern contacted to the adverbs,verbs and their semantic differences,and analyzes their use in differences in style selection and features in expressive functions.The third chapter investigates the adverbs of situation"Jiubian(??)"and"Jiushi(??)".In terms of syntax,the co-occurrence with verb components,prepositional phrases,adverbs and the choice of negative sentence are analyzed.Semantically,their semantic emphasis is emphasized.Pragmatically,their expressive functions are analyzed.The fourth chapter mainly analyzes the adverbs"Jiuzhong(??)"and"Jiuci(??)"from three dimensions:syntactic collocation,semantic emphasis and pragmatic function.Syntactically,it focuses on analyzing the collocation.Semantically their semantic emphasis is examined.In terms of pragmatics,two aspects of pragmatic function and sentence type distribution are discussed.The fifth chapter analyzes the process of lexicalization and grammaticalization of "Jiu X" situational adverbs,and expounds the motivation,mechanism and characteristics of their formation from a theoretical point of view.The sixth chapter is the summary of the full text...
Keywords/Search Tags:"Jiu X", modal adverbs, diachronic evolution, synchronic studies
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