Metrical Study On Pronoun Word In ShuiHuZhuan

ShuiHuZhuan is our country's first lengthy serial novel which took the peasant uprising as the theme. It was written round about the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty. It mainly used the colloquial language and basically reflected Chinese appearance from Southern Song Dynasty to early Ming Dynasty. Moreover its length is so long with rich language materials that it becomes an important literature for the study of modern Chinese. Therefore the study on the grammar of this novel takes on the important academic significance.In this thesis, we choose Pronoun Word in ShuiHuZhuan as the object of study, and divide the 111 Pronoun Word which appear in the novel into 3 major types:The Personal pronoun;Demonstrative pronoun;Interrogative pronoun. After that, we calculate, describe and analyze the usage of each pronoun roundly, concretely and detailedly.This thesis makes the combination of quantitative analysis with qualitative analysis, and also illuminate with the statistical method by the list. It sketches the system of adverbs of degree in ShuiHuZhuan and the character of every pronoun on usage and distribution.