A Study On The Construction "Suowei A,Buguo Shi B"

"Suowei A,Buguo Shi B(所谓A,不过是B)"is a frame construction that is used more frequently in modern Chinese.In this paper,based on the Chinese corpus,we use descriptive and interpretative,qualitative and quantitative,comparative and experimental methods to study this construction from four perspectives,including construction recognition,syntactic-semantic-syntactic,constructionalization,and interaction between components and constructions.As for the form of construction,considering the clarity and comprehensiveness of the standard implementation,two types of construction defining criterias were used to determine that "Suowei A,Buguo Shi B" is a construction;variable A is diverse in grammatical nature,mainly corporative and predicative components,with a small number of syllables,and the number of construction is related to the grammatical nature and length distribution of A;variable B can be phrases,words and other short syllable components,but B is mostly a long sentence or a compound sentence with long syllables,and the number of construction is related to the grammatical nature and length distribution of B.The construction has four types of variants,namely,component substitution,component addition,component omission and component concatenation.As for the syntactic-semantic-syntactic of construction,it can be served as syntactic components such as object,clause and independent sentence;The meaning of the construction "Suowei A,Buguo Shi B" is an explanation of the topic with a small amount of contempt,a subjective negative criticism of an opinion,etc.,with a derogatory meaning,and a subjective evaluation of an event,etc.,conveying emotion,which can be summarized as an explanation,a derogatory negative,or a subjective evaluation of topic A by the speaker;the construction usually co-occurs with negative contexts and has a strong pejorative tendency;the semantic relations between variables A and B are mainly five kinds of relations such as analogy,purpose,equivalence,ontology and metaphor,and opposite relationship,etc.This construction has presupposition function,topic highlighting,discourse articulation and other discourse functions.As for the constructionalization of construction,in the Spring and Autumn Period,"Suowei" had the function of a topic marker,and its use increased in the Warring States Period,forming the judgmental sentence "Suowei...Zhe(者),...Ye(也)",similar to the modern Chinese the structure of "Suowei...,Shi...";the use of the quotation marker "Suowei" increased in the two Han dynasties.In the Song and Yuan dynasties,the construction "Suowei A,Buguo B" began to appear,mainly as an objective explanation;in the Ming and Qing dynasties,the construction "Suowei A,Buguo Shi B" inherited a certain degree of objective interpretative meaning from the Song and Yuan dynasties,but as "Suowei" began to be used as a negative marker in the Song and Yuan dynasties and as "Suowei" often coexisted with the scope adverb "Buguo" with a transitive meaning,"Suowei A,Buguo B" also expressed a subjective evaluation of A or conveyed an emotional meaning;in the Republican period,the use of "Suowei A,Buguo B" increased substantially.The internal factors of the language are the motivation for the formation of this construction,and the social environment is an important factor for the popularity of this construction in the Republican period.As for the phonological interaction between the constructs and the constructions,there are two phonological counterparts to the weakened objectivity and increased subjectivity of "Suowei A,Buguo Shi B" without subjective extreme meaning: the phonological variation of "Shi" and "Suowei",linking experimental phonology to construct grammar.