The Research Of Monosyllabic Positional Verb

Positional Verb(some consider it Adherent Verb ) has drew much attention of many grammarians for that it could be dynamic and static in connotation. This thesis focus on the Positional Verb on its defining, categories, its syntactic and semantic characteristics.Firstly, we make two syntactic frames to confine the Positional Verbs into four categories for the consideration of the objectives after the verbs.Secondly, we make an analysis of the semantic characteristics of the Positional Verb, classifying it into three types: placing, adhesion, and static situation. Through the analysis of the static connotation of the Positional Verbs, the author finds that the unbalancing phenomenon emerges when the categories of verbs showing the static connotation, which can be shown in the continuity: Va>Vb,Vc>Vd.That is to say, Va has the strongest static connotation, Vb and Vc in the mid, Vd the least. Through the comparative analysis of the events of adhering and displacing, we make it clear that the event of adhering is an event in which the subject puts the object in certain place, and this kind of event has the beginning and the end.Then the author makes a detailed description of syntactic characteristics of the Positional Verb, observing the objective, the complement and adverbial after the Positional Verb and the sentences it can functions in. And, the author also makes a comparative analysis of the differences of the four categories of the syntactic characteristics.Lastly the author explains the reason why the Positional Verb can function both in dynamic and static sentences from the perspective of pragmatics. It is believed that it's a special practice for Chinese the language applies verb into static meaning. It is because the defining domain transit to static domain that the Positional Verb can be static.