The Study On Relationships Between Attributive Word And Noun, Verb, Adjective

Attributive Word is a special part of speech in modern Chinese. It doesn’t have longhistory and was born about1950s and60s. With time passing by, Attributive Word is alsochanging: some of them are gradually disappearing; a lot of new Attributive Words add in thisspecial kind of word. Lv Shuxiang and Rao Changyong (1981) once pointed out that thereproductive rate of Attributive Word ranks after Noun. Attributive Word is at a point ofabrupt change between Noun, Verb and Adjective, so it has the complicated links with thesethree parts of speech. The paper, from the dynamic point of view, distinguishes the relationsbetween Noun, Verb and Adjective by retrieving the corpus of Ancient Chinese and ModernChinese and analyzing the statistic data.The paper contains six chapters except Introduction and Conclusion. The Introductionmainly presents the research overview of Attributive Word briefly and the research content,the significance of research, the research method and the source of corpus.Chapter One The Analysis of Attributive Word. It mainly explains the grammaticalcharacter of Attributive Word and the difference in the grammatical function and the range ofapplication between Attributive Word and Noun, Verb and Adjective. Meanwhile, it analyzesthe double parts of speech of Attributive Word by observing the note of Attributive Word inthe Modern Chinese Dictionary (the fifth edition).Chapter Two The Overview of the Relations between Attributive Word and Noun, Verband Adjective. It generalizes the research results of previous scholars on the relations betweenAttributive Word and Noun, Verb and Adjective and gets that the majority of them think thatAttributive Word is transforming towards Noun, Verb and Adjective.Chapter Three The Relation between Attributive Word and Noun; Chapter Four TheRelation between Attributive Word and Verb; Chapter Five The Relation between AttributiveWord and Adjective. These three chapters are the main part of the paper. They mainly put theeye on the words which are regarded as Attributive Word in the 《试论非谓形容词》 whiletreated as Noun, Verb and Adjective in the Modern Chinese Dictionary (the fifth edition). Onthe basis of analyzing their use in the corpus of Ancient Chinese and Modern Chinese and consulting the theory come up with by the previous scholars on the transformation of thepart of speech, it comes to the conclusion: for the majority of words, concerning the relationsbetween Attributive Word and Noun, Verb and Adjective, it doesn’t turn out that AttributiveWord is transforming towards Noun, Verb and Adjective but their use as Noun, Verb orAdjective are the extension of their original part of speech.Chapter Six The Relation between Attributive Word and the words that aren’t Noun, Verband Adjective. Of the436words in the 《试论非谓形容词》,7of them are defined as thewords that aren’t Noun, Verb and Adjective in the Modern Chinese Dictionary (the fifthedition). This chapter comes to the conclusion that all the Attributive Word are nottransforming towards Adverb and Pronoun but the extension of their original use as Adverb orPronoun of these words by observing the use of the seven words in the corpus of AncientChinese and Modern Chinese.The last part is Conclusion. It summarizes the main viewpoints which are put forward inthe front part of this paper and makes the explanation on the shortcomings of the paper.