The Later Han Measure Questions Research

The Book of Houhan Dynasty was written in Song Dynasty of Southern Dynasties, which is a historical document on history of Houhan Dynasty. For the present, researches pay much attention to collation, collection and hermeneutic on historical documents, while the grammatical research on those documents is far away from enough, thus we select the Ceduo Questions on the book of Houhan Dynasty to do some research.We make an overall and systemic description and classification of Ceduo Questions on the Book of Houhan Dynasty, trying to draw the outline of basic aspect of it. The Ceduo Questions are classified to two categories, asking oneself and confirmation.There are eight Ceduo Adverbs in the book.We analysis the Ceduo Questions on three planes:Syntax, Semantic and Pragmatic, Try to do a comprehensive and meticulous research on Ceduo Questions.In addition, we want to find the reasons that why new Ceduo Adverbs are produced.1.Ceduo Qusetions are divided to two categories. The Zicun Ceduo Questions are used"殆","盖","庶","无乃",the Qiuzheng Ceduo Questions are used"得无","将","其","岂".2.There are many contex meanings of Ceduo Questions in Houhan Dynasty.For example, finding the reasons, predicting the future, counseling and suggesting, arousing thinking,and so on. The Zicun Ceduo Questions are more certain than Qiuzheng Ceduo Questions3.The causing of Ceduo Adverbs is decisioned by the degree of doubt, semantic and pragmatic.