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Modern Mongolian Voice Sentence Justice Study

Posted on:2011-02-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W J S G L HanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360308980605Subject:Chinese Ethnic Language and Literature
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With the constant deepening and developing of Syntax and Semantics theories since the 50s of 20th century, Linguistics filed has got more and more profound understanding of Sentence Semantics. Various Linguistic theories touch on Sentence Semantics more or less as more linguists realized that Semantics studies is much more than just about the Lexical Semantics. Thus, Sentence Semantics has become one of the main areas that linguists concern with. Instead of focusing on the concrete meanings of sentences, the modern Sentence Semantics study concentrates on the paradigmatic relation and combinational relation of the Sentence Semantic patterns. According to vertical relationship of Sentence Semantic patterns, the paradigmatic relation includes paradigmatic types of topics and subjects as well as those of predicates and narrated items. On the other hand, the horizontal relationship of Sentence Semantic patterns studies the declensional changes that occur when the predicates are affected by the narrated items in the specific combination of semantic structure patterns of concrete sentences.However, the Sentence Semantic study of Mongolian has not been valued until recent years, which resulted in quite a limited numbers of works on the topic. Accordingly, this paper themed Semantic Study on the Voice Sentences in Modern Mongolian is the first systematic study to integrate the modern Mongolian sentences with a verbal predicate with their voice modes from Semantics Perspective. Drawing lessons from Case Grammar and Coordination Valence and combining theories and practices as well as in the light of previous research findings of traditional Mongolian studies, the paper analyzes the semantic structures of modern Mongolian voice sentences in the aim to probe into the semantic relations of various semantic compositions of Mongolian voice sentences.Furthermore, as far as the author is concerned, human beings' language based communication is a communication of semanteme, and sentences are the fundamental units of our language exchange. In the light of this view, the paper elaborates on semantic structures, corresponding rules of verb stems and voice affixes as well as the synonymous transformation of voice sentences.The paper is composed of five main parts indicated in details as follows:the Introduction, Chapter One, Chapter Two, Chapter Three and the Conclusion.The Introduction part includes five sections:Section One not only summarizes the copious opinions of linguists'different definitions of voice sentence patterns in modern Mongolian, but also puts forward the author's own unique definition of voice sentences. Section Two introduces the Sentence Semantics, Semantics, Semanteme and semantic structure of sentences in Mongolian. Section Three expounds on domestic and foreign scholars' research results in Mongolian Sentence Semantics field. Section Four briefly describes and lists the linguistic theories and study approaches applied in the paper. Finally, Section Five concludes the significance of Sentence Semantics study in modern Mongolian.Chapter One intends to dig deeper into the voice sentences of modern Mongolian from both Syntax and Semantics perspectives, and explores the conditioning relation of sentences'internal components. In addition, it makes a detailed Sentence Semantic structural analysis on Mongolian voice sentences from the Sentence Semantic structures of the following six sentence types such as Active Sentences, Causative Sentences, Passive Sentences, Interactive Sentences, Homodynamic Sentences and Multidynamic Sentences. In Mongolian, a voice sentence represents whether an action is completed by the subject itself individually or cooperatively with others, or done under the force of other factors. Therefore, the main stated cases in sentence Semantic Structure of Mongolian voice sentences are primarily performer, recipient, perlocutionary actor and coordinators etc. What's noteworthy is that the descriptive components of the sentences are ignored here in the paper when analyzing the Sentence Semantic structures of the modern Mongolian sentences. Instead, basing on the combinational relation of narrated items and predicates, the paper unfolds a respective analysis on active sentences, causative sentences, passive sentences, interactive sentences, homodynamic sentences and Multidynamic Sentences of modern Mongolian.Chapter Two mainly aims at the voice mode transformation of verb stems in Mongolian, and sums up the corresponding rules between verb stems and voice affixes through sementeme analysis on voice affixes. In Mongolian, except from the active sentences, all other types of voice sentences are indicated through adding or putting away the corresponding affixes at the end of the verb stems. So, this chapter focuses on the grammar meanings of the various voice affixes, and at the same time, makes sementeme analysis on voice affixes from the aspect of narrator relations in voice sentences so as to manifest the differences among various voice affixes and also to find out the corresponding rules between verb stems and voice sentences.Starting from the compositional relation of the sentences, Chapter Three is to conduct a comparative study on synonymous sentence patterns of active sentences, interactive sentences, and homodynamic sentences in Mongolian voice sentences, and elaborate on their transformational conditions. The compositional relation of Sentence Semantic patterns is of a horizontal relationship. Therefore, the below stated transformation conditions is to be explained in terms of the declensional changes that occur when the predicates are affected by the narrated items in the specific combination of semantic structure patterns of concrete sentences.Finally, the Conclusion generalizes all the results studied in the paper. Furthermore, it also briefly introduces the unique points and ideas of the paper. As for that, in order to present the research result of the former two chapters, this part mainly projects itself and summarizes the paper in the form of tables.
Keywords/Search Tags:Semantics, Modern Mongolian, Voice Sentences, Sentence Semantics, Synonymous Sentences
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