The Study Of The ABB-type Adjective

With more and more studying on the parts of speech, the reduplication of adjectives has been concerned for the long time, but people have laid emphasis more on its static construction and its meaning.This thesis makes a comprehensive and quantitative study on the ABB-type adjective from its grammatical structure, its semantic meaning and linguistic application. In our opinion, on the structure, it has features such as richness, analogization and across-hierachy. Besides, in the semantic meaning, it has features such as varieties, explicitness and syncretism. The former reflects the difference in the meaning; the latter embodies the explicitness and harmoniousness in the stylistic meaning. And these features make it forms its unique artistic tendency and evident style.In a word, the ABB-type adjective is the important and unique form of reduplication of Chinese adjectives, which riches to be expressive and lively. It is beneficial to reveal the meaning and value of "duplication" which is one of the means of language, and further deepen the cognition on the characteristics.