A Study Of Double-syllable Words-"不X" And Related Constructions Denoting Progressive In Modern Chinese

This paper choose the common double-syllable conjunctions and the relatedconstructions in modern Chinese which could be progressive like“bu X”（不X——不但、不仅、不单、不光、不只）as research objects, and will research them fromthe angle of syntax, semantics and pragmatics in order to identify similarities anddifferences between them. And try to make the interpretation of their motivationmechanisms for coexisting in modern Chinese, hoping to rich the research of modernChinese and provide some reference recommendations for Chinese studying andteaching. This paper can be divided into three parts.The first part is the introduction. In this part, the current domestic andinternational issues related to the status of the study are summarized and our ideasand methods to establish the research object are presented. Then we will point outour research-ideas and ways, and fix our research object.The second part as the core of the whole paper can be subdivided into twoparts，including Chapter1, Chapter2and Chapter3. In Chapter1, we researched“bu X”（不X）and related stuctures from the angle of syntactics. We analyzied andcompared their syntactic environments、syntactic fuction and formats. In Chapter2,we introduced markedness theory to study and compare their semantic types,semantic relations、degree of progressive meaning and so on. In Chapter3, weintroduced theories of subjectivity、prototype category and family resemble to studytheir pragmatic functions. And we also tried to explain their coexisting phenomenonin modern Chinese.The third part is the conclusion. In this part, we summarize the main researchcontent of this paper. We will show the differences of“bu X”（不X）and stucturesfrom the angle of syntactics, semantics and pragmatics synchronically.