Study On The Adverbs In Baopuzineipian

Taoism is our native religion. Baopuzineipian is an important book about Taoism,and to a certain extent,the adverb phenomenon can reflect the situation of middle anciet Chinese. At present,the academic circles study this book mainly from the aspects of philosophy,esthetics,literature and so on.But the language research has not gotten the special attention. Therefore,we decided to study this book. in order to do some foundational work for the research of Chinese history through its adverb study. This article is mainly divided into three major parts:Part I:It is the preface which includes three parts.First,introducing Ge Hong and Baopuzineipian,and explaining the value of this research. Second,introducing the Chinese adverbial definition,the adverbial grammar characteristic,the difference between adverb and the other relative part of speech,the adverbial classifying method.This article provides the standard of judging adverb,namely:The adverb mainly acts as adverbial modifier,modifying,limiting the predicate in the sentence,and expresses the behavior characteristic or the condition nature .And we divide the adverbs into nine parts: Scope adverb,Degree adverb,Time adverb,Manner adverb,Expression adverb,Negative adverb,Medest adverb,Link adverb,and the adverb of indicating substituting. Third,putting forward the method of research .Part II:The analysis of Baopuzineipian's abverbs. Establishing Baopuzineipian' s adverbs system on the basis of classifying above. This part is the main part .It mainly probes the classification of the adverbs and analyzes every adverb concretely. Studying the adverb's position and meaning about grammar carefully,and analyzing the frequency of use. At the same time,analyzing every adverb of each category by statistical list from the perspectives regarding its decorating and explaining to predicate. Therefore,we can have comprehensive understanding to the adverb's usage.Part III:Conclusion,including two parts.First,the analysis of applying condition of the adverbs used in Baopuzineipian.We compare the adverbs from these aspects:the quantity of every kind of adverb,the frequency of use,the position in the sentence,the situation of concurrent kind, the situation of used together ordinally and so on.Second,we compare the adverbs between Baopuzineipian and Huainanzi. We analyze the adverbs of these two books from the quantity,the inheritance and development,the grammar characteristic and so on,in order to find the general venation from Han dynasty to Jin dynasty.