On The Coexistence Of Time Words In The Former And The Latter Clauses

This dissertation focuses on the coexistence of time words in the former clause and the latter clause of the complex sentence. Time words especially signify the defined words of " year, month or day "; the complex sentence commonly refers to the one that contains only two clauses; the coexistence mainly means all forms and senses of time words when they coexist in the former clause and the latter clause.Under the Government of the Clause, the two time words coexisting in the former clause and the latter clause are not only influenced by the whole complex sentence in forms, grammar and senses, but interact and display all kinds of features and regularity; on the other hand, their coexistence will affect all the grammar, semantics and pragmatics of the whole complex sentence; furthermore, some grammatical phenomena are probably the results of the interaction of time words and the complex sentence.This thesis consists of five chapters.Chapter one mainly introduces the aim and method of this paper, and the forerunners' research , then explains the grammatical functions and meanings of the time point words and the time period words.Chapter two investigates the collocation of the two coexisting time words , explores the collocation from sentence combination, syntax and semantics these three aspects respectively, and refers to the related semantic and pragmatic features when necessary.Chapter three mainly studies the special forms of the time words in the former clause and the latter clause, discusses "the coordinate time words " ,...