Research Into Conditional Complex Sentences In Medieval Chinese

Conditional complex sentence is an important branch of Chinese complex sentences system. So far, the academic study on conditional complex sentences is still not systematic and comprehensive, especially there is still much space for mining in the cohort research.The thesis attempts to base on medieval Chinese — a special period, mainly focuses on various types of conditional complex sentences and makes an comprehensive analysis on them.The thesis examines on representative corpus of medieval Chinese, collects cases of conditional complex sentences in medieval Chinese as the basis,and refers to theoretical achievements of modern Chinese in conditional complex sentence studies,mainly to conclude the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic functions of conditional complex sentence in medieval Chinese by combining grammatical descriptions and logical analysis.Introduction section defines the connotation and classification of conditional complex sentence,establishes its study goals and methods by outlining research overviews on conditional complex sentences of modern and ancient Chinese.In the body of this thesis, the conditional complex sentences in medieval Chinese is classified to describe.The thesis mainly discusses its syntactic, semantic, pragmatic features and functions, and attempts to appears the basic landscape of conditional complex sentences in medieval Chinese.The conclusion part notes that conditional complex sentence in medieval Chinese was being at a stage of becoming a complete in the aspects of syntactic structure, logical semantic and pragmatic functions, and established the development pattern for the conditional complex sentences in modern Chinese roughly.