A Study On Measure Words In ZhangXieZhuangYuan(张协状元)

ZhangXieZhuangYuan is one of the dramas in later Song dynasty.It can only be found in the last volume of YongLeDaDian and was written by a man of letters in WenZhou ShuHui.This thesis explored many aspects about the measure words in Zhang and also compared it with the other workers of Song dynasty to try to describe the outlines of the system of measure words at that time.The results will make some contribution to the diachronic study of the Chinese measure words.Not only qualitative and quantitative analysis,but also synchronic and diachronic investigations were applied in this paper, we also absorbed and made full use of the latest theories in linguistics, such as grammaticalization theory,metaphor theory in cognitive linguistics,subjectivity & subjectivisation theory in functional linguistics,and so on.The paper is made up of four chapters besides the preface and the summary.The preface presents the significance,methods and theories of the study.Chapter One outlines the current researches about Chinese measure words.Chapter Two gives detailed analyses and descriptions of the noun-measure words and the verb-measure words in Zhang Chapter Three analyses the grammar and semantic characteristics of the measure words in Zhang.In Chapter Four,we do some diachronic investigations and synchronic investigations of the measure words in Zhang.In the end,a conclusion is drawn about the features of the measure words in Zhang.The thesis analyzed the system of measure words synchronically and statically and also made a diachronic comparison about the system of measure words in Zhang to show its features and evolutions.Finally we reached the conclusion that the system of measure words in Zhang played an important role in the evolutions of the Chinese measure words, and the measure words in Zhang was close to complete and similar to that in the modern Chinese.But they are not so perfect and need further development.