Modern Chinese Feel Verbs

Verbs of sensation or feelings are special kinds in mankind languages. They express sensation or feelings with the same forms of action verbs, yet they are different from either the action verbs or the adjectives expressing feelings or sensation. We accord to the scope of accepting words in《Xian Dai Han Yu Ci Dian》and《Han Yu Dong Ci Yong Fa Ci Dian》, and the certain form standards to define the scope of verbs of sensation and feelings which we want to research.Firstly, we classify the verbs of sensation or feelings roughly. According to different meaning items of sensation or feelings which they have, they are classified into eight kinds including physiological feelings and psychological feeling. According to semantic and grammatical features, they are also classified into two kinds: free verbs and agglutinate verbs of sensation or feelings. The free verbs of sensation or feelings which have the meaning of senses of feeling and senses of causative themselves are listed respectively.After describing the feature of meaning of the words of verbs of sensation or feelings, we utilize three levels grammar view to reveal the feature of the verbs of sensation or feelings in three respects of syntax, semantic and pragmatic, compare the differences among the verbs of sensation or feelings, probe the feature of semantic and distinctive value of pragmatic of them.On syntax level, verbs of sensation or feelings have the same basic grammar features as the verbs, but they are different from the action verbs. The object they bring is organism or sense organ nouns, they can be decorated by degree adverbs and complements of degree. In the sentences, they can act as sentence components separately or combined with other words.On semantic level, verbs of sensation or feelings are the result of extending and transforming from action verbs. There is relationship and difference between they used as passive verbs expressing a sense of feeling and action verbs used as active verbs expressing a sense of action, and that to distinguish one from the other often depends on structure. Verbs of sensation or feelings are mainly bivalence verbs, while minor of them are univalence verbs. While in "V-R"structure and behind components of V DE Sentence"'s "DE", verbs of sensation or feelings express special semantic relationship.On pragmatic level, using verbs of sensation or feelings is a need of pragmatic, reflecting the releationship of topic and comment, expressive center of gravity and focus.