The Analysis Of "NP₁+This/That(Quantifier)+NP₂"

This dissertation analyzes "NP1+this/that (quantifier)+NP2" based on the study of people before, with Chinese language facts as the starting point. This dissertation analyzes the structure of "NP1+this/that (quantifier)+NP2" on the composition of the structure, its syntactic expression, and the pragmatic functions.The first chapter is the introduction, including research object, research meaning, research scope and content, research methods and corpora source and research current situation.The second chapter investigates the constitution of NP2 and NP1, and the grammatical relations between "NP1" and "this/that (quantifier) +NP2". Through the observation we can see that NP1 can be personal pronouns,nouns,nominal expressions and predicate phrase, NP2 can be nouns and nominal expressions with complicated modification. The grammatical relations between "NP1" and "this/that (quantifier)+NP2" can be apposition relation, disposition relation and time and location limited relation.The third chapter investigates "NP,+this/that (quantifier)+NP2" on its syntactic expression. The structure can play in sentences as the sentence subject, object and attributive. The structure can be a sentence itself. It can co-occur with an exclamation.The fourth chapter analyzes "NP1+this/that (quantifier)+NP2" on the pragmatic perspective. In verbal communication, the structure can play specific discourse function, including subjective evaluation function, contrast function, general function, strengthen modify function. "This/that" in this structure can play deictic function, refers back to function. "This/that" can also acts as disposition markers.The last part sums up and summarizes the full dissertation, and points out the deficiency of this text.