The Mutiple Investigation Of Chinese Modality Adverbs "Bieshi"

Based on Modern Chinese Modality Adverb “Bieshi”(别是) as the object ofstudy, the use of linguistic theory and research methods, combined with corpus fact,comprehensive, multi-angle inspection and analysis “Bieshi”(别是) on its syntax,semantics, pragmatics, lexicalization and sources has been done. Also, its conjugation“mo”(莫) fellow are comparatively studied. In order to have more comprehensivein-depth cognition about “Bieshi”(别是).From the syntax aspect, syntactic distribution and sentence category distributionof “Bieshi”(别是) are discussed. First of all,“Bieshi”(别是) has the characteristics offlexibility and can be placed at the beginning of the sentence and in the sentence.Meanwhile, the distribution of “Bieshi”(别是) in the object sentence is particularlyinspected. This distribution is believed to be closely related to the decategorization ofPredicate object verb VP1and also the “Bieshi”(别是) object clause which has thefunction of the event and commentary; moreover, in a certain locale, deputy languageand direct citation are a manifestation of the subjective of language and anembodiment of “self-performance components”which left in the speaker’sdiscourse,and they are used in conjunction with predicate object verb and “Bieshi”(别是) clause,that which they can manifest the speaker’s subjective perspective andenhance modality tone of the “Bieshi”(别是) object sentence. In addition,“Bieshi”(别是) are mainly distributed in the interrogative, declarative sentences, a few cases, inexclamatory.Semantic characteristic of “Bieshi”(别是) has been analysised from three aspects:semantic features, semantic background and semantic scope. Thus, semantic featuresof “Bieshi”(别是) can be encapsulated by its naturalness, ancillary，composability.The four types of semantic background mode are constructed, whether the location of“Bieshi”(别是) at the beginning of sentence or in the sentence, the entire propositionshould be at its semantic scope.“Bieshi”(别是)have rich pragmatic functions mainly reflected in three aspects:the modal function, interpersonal function and chapter cohesive function. Modalfunction is displayed in three respects: negative expression, conveying tactfully, to getto the bottom of modality. Interpersonal function is mainly reflected in two parts:marking speculative question and mitigation of language situation. Cohesive Functiondiscourse is manifested in the coordinate semantic and causal semantic relations between proceding and following paragraphs.“Bieshi”(别是)lexicalization is a relatively recent phenomenon in the history ofChinese in the Qing Dynasty. According to the theory of lexical patterns,“Bieshi”(别是)is produced by productive adverbs in the impact of Modern Chinese lexical mode“Fshi”(F是).The suffix “shi”(是)attached to the adverb root “bie”(别) constitutes apost-attached type compound words. Combined with the previous research, this articletries to put forward the fact that “shi”(是) is the criteria of the suffix on three:(1) theF represents the semantic meaning category and grammatical category;(2)“shi”(是)in the “Fshi (是)” can not be discomposed into words without any substantial meaning,the location is fixed, closely attached to the root F, constituting an additionalcompound adverbs;(3)“shi”(是) can be postattached to different roots F, formingadverb, and can have a strong formation capability of words, and the words formed inthis way can be more than ten.In view of comparatively studied perspective of synchronic conjugation, it issummed up that the follow-up characteristics of “bie”(别) fellow and “mo”(莫) fellow,and the differences when those follow-up characteristics co-occur with other tonecomposition and adverbs.