Chinese Copies Of The Constitutive Event Domain Multiple Inheritance Model Program

Chinese verb-copying construction refers to a construction in which its verb is copied to reuse in the same sentence representing both the action and its result. Many scholars at home and abroad have discussed the construction from the structural, semantic, pragmatic, classification and functional perspectives up to now, but they have not investigated it under the frame of Cognitive Linguistics and Construction Grammar. This paper tries to establish an Event Multiple Inheritance model (EMI) on the basis of the Event-domain Cognitive Model (ECM) in Congnitive Linguistics and Multiple Inheritance Model (MI) in Construction Grammar which is used to explain its formation, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features part by part with the aid of quantitative analysis from the corpus of 1195 items of verb-copying examples.There are five chapters in this paper, and the main ideas are as follows:Chapter One introduces the motivation, purpose, methodology of the study and data collection as well as layout of this paper.Chapter Two reviews the previous studies by the scholars at home and abroad in the aspects of verb-copying construction's formation, types functions, and its relations with other types of sentence, thus finding the gap left by them.Chapter Three is intended to establish EMI on the basis of ECM and MI in order to bridge the gap in the previous studies which is used to analyze all kinds of verb-copying constructions.Chapter Four is based on data description and gives a detailed analysis of 1195 items of verb-copying constructions and the syntactic features, semantic directions and pragmatic functions using EMI with the aid of related data and rates.Chapter Five gives a conclusion of the whole paper and deals with the contributions made by this study, and the limitations and suggestions are also mentioned. The main contributions of the study lie in: Firstly, a new cognitive model named EMI has been proposed to analyze Chinese verb-copying construction. Secondly, a closed corpus is established, in which we find 1195 verb-copying examples. And we give a statistic and classification of verb-copying constructions, including their syntactic features, semantic directions and pragmatic functions with the aid of reliable data.