Research On Some Aspects Of Adjective Reduplication In Modern Chinese

Reduplication is one of the most widespread grammatical phenomenon in modern Chinese. Chinese is considered to have a poor morphological changes, but it has rich and different kinds of forms of reduplications. My native language Azerbaijani Language is morphologically rich, this fact helps me to understand the morphological prosses more clearly. Reduplication is common phenomenon for the most of the parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, adverbs, measure words and so on, but adjective reduplication forms have special features, such as the various types of reduplicative forms including AA, AABB, ABAB, ABB, and so on. Reduplication of adjectives perfectly reflects the flexibility and richness of Chinese Language. Dissertation is consists of7chapters.The first chapter is introduction, mainly presents the scope and the meaning of the research, also we present some reduplication related concepts and the importance of the study of adjective reduplication and its grammatical features from typological perspective.The second chapter is the first part of the structure and periodical development of the adjective reduplication, mainly discusses the structure and typological features of AA and ABB form reduplicative adjectives. First we analyze the structures and then introduce the typological characteristics of adjective reduplication. In this chapter we state that adjective reduplication is one of the major morphological changes in Chinese Language, has its own rich specific features like "adjective+affix", changes on the parts of speech after reduplication.The third chapter is dedicated the second part of the structure and periodical development of reduplicative adjectives. Mainly discusses the structure and grammatical functions of AABB and ABAB reduplicative forms.In the fourth chapter we talk about one of the most popular topic-syntactic functions, we mainly compare the syntactic functions of adjectives and their reduplicative forms and we propose typological features of reduplication.The topic of the fifth chapter is about "quantity" based on the most commonly reduplicated adjectives. We compare adjective reduplication in more than30languages and generalize the typological meanings of Chinese adjectives.In the sixth chapter we compare the adjective reduplication of Chinese and Turkic Languages from grammatical, syntactical point of view.The last sixth chapter, we discuss and give statistical analysis to the adjective reduplication and its influence to the second language acquisition.