The Study Of Pronouns In "yun He Qi Zong"

Modern Chinese is the bridge between ancient Chinese and contemporary Chinese.Among them,Ming Dynasty Chinese was subordinate to the middle and late modern Chinese,which was an important part of the history of Chinese language development.Therefore,the study of Ming Chinese monographs is of great importance to the study about the entire history of Chinese grammar.As the first long vernacular novel of the Ming Dynasty written and recomposed in the classical Chinese by Chinese in the Ming Dynasty,the language of YUN HE QI ZONG was the "living language" used by people in the society at Ming Dynasty,which was easy to understand and interesting,with a high degree of colloquialism,and is a vivid blueprint for studying the development of the Chinese language in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.On the consideration that there are few theses conducting the corpus researches on YUN HE QI ZONG.Besides,there is no articles involved the in-depth studies on the pronouns of this novel.Thus,the pronouns in YUN HE QI ZONG were taken as the corpus in the article,and the pronouns were taken as the research object.The pronouns in YUN HE QI ZONG were comprehensively investigated by metrological statistics and qualitative analysis.Afterwards,the interpretation and analysis was conducted from the perspective of synchronic duration in combination with comparative analysis.It strives to display the whole picture of pronouns in YUN HE QI ZONG comprehensively and systematically in the article,which could better understand the development law of pronouns in modern Chinese.A total of six parts is divided in the article.The first chapter was the introduction.Firstly,the current research status,definition and classification of pronouns were stated.Secondly,the current status,research value and research methods related to YUN HE QI ZONG were explained.The pronouns in YUN HE QI ZONG were divided into three major categories for research,including the personal pronouns,indicative pronouns and interrogative pronouns in the article.In the second chapter,the personal pronouns in YUN HE QI ZONG were analyzed,which were described statistically from six perspectives: the second-person pronoun,the third-person pronoun,reflexive pronoun,referral pronoun and generic pronoun.In the third chapter,the indicative pronouns of YUN HE QI ZONG were analyzed and classified into four parts as proximal demonstrative pronouns,distal demonstrative pronouns,universal demonstrative pronouns and general demonstrative pronouns,which were described in statistical,respectively.In the fourth chapter,the interrogative pronouns in YUN HE QI ZONG were analyzed and divided into seven categories: pronoun of object,character,manner and situation,purpose and reason,time,place,and quantity interrogative pronoun,which were described in statistical,respectively.In the fifth Chapter,the pronouns in YUN HE QI ZONG were compared with the pronouns in The Remains History of Sui Dynasty and Water Margin for simultaneous contrast,as well as the pronouns in The Changing Articles Collection of Dunhuang and The Travels of Lao Can for a historical comparison,so that the characteristics of the pronouns in YUN HE QI ZONG were jointly contrasted and analyzed.Finally,it could be concluded that the pronoun system in YUN HE QI ZONG was the late modern Chinese language,for which the pronoun system was shown with the typical features of the modern Chinese pronoun system,with the developing characteristic towards modern Chinese pronouns.The characteristic of systematization,standardization and maturation was found in the pronoun system in YUN HE QI ZONG.