Study Of The Group Of Words Like "Shenzhi(甚至)"

The research object of the thesis include "shenzhi (甚至)", "shenhuo (甚或) ", "shen’er(甚而)", "shenqie (甚且) ",yizhi (以致) ", "naizh(乃 至)".At present, the academia is mainly focused on the study of "shenzhi (甚至)". There are still some different opinions on the study of "shenzhi(甚至)"， such as its way of lexicalization, and the part of speech it belongs to,etc.This group of words represents a kind of pattern of the development of synonyms. And we call it the analogy model. The word formation pattern of these words can give us some inspiration on the study of construction of other connectives and the development of associated morphemes.At the synchronic level, there are same features as well as the the differences in syntax, semantics and pragmatics. For example, "shenzhi (甚 至)", "shenhuo (甚或) ", "yizhi (以至)" can be used to connect nouns, noun phrases, verbs, verb phrases, adjectives, adjective phrases, clauses and sentences, "shen’er(甚而)", "shenqie (甚且) " can be used to connect verbs, verb phrases, adjectives, adjective phrases, clauses ans sentences, "yizhi (以致)" can be used to connect nouns and noun phrases. In semantics,the relationship among the syntactical elements connected by "shenzhi (甚至)" is increasing or decreasing by degree. "shenhuo (甚或)" does not have such requirement. The syntactical elements connected by "shenqie(甚且)" sometimes present a kind of logical inference relations. The syntactical elements connected by "yizhi(以至)" reflect causality In pragmatics, these words are different in style, mood, anti-expectation and other aspects, "shenzhi (甚至) "completed its lexicalization at the earliest. The appearances of "shenhuo(甚或)", "shen’er(甚而)"， "shenqie (甚且)" are influenced by the analogical creation of "shenzhi (甚至) ". So, this research of different features and the same features in synchronic level is based on the diachronic investigation. And we find that reanalysis, analogy, subjectivisation, the trend of double syllables of Chinese are the main reasons of lexicalization.