Constructions With Co-occurrent Zai And Ye In Modern Chinese

Zai and Ye are two adverbs frequently appear in modern Chinese,with complicated meaning and usage.They not only have a certain cross in meaning, but also frequently occur together in a sentence, and produce some connection.The seniors have discussed the structure of Zai X Ye Y thoroughly and have acquired a lot of achievements. However, other forms co-occurrent Zai and Ye are short of analysis. In view of Zai and Ye’s highly frequent co-occurrence,the similar meaning.and difficult to distinguish,this paper hope to find the relationship between the three kinds of co-occurrent Zai and Ye and deepen the recognition of them.This paper consists of five parts.Chapter 1 is introduction which mainly introduces the origin of the topic,the scope and main contents of the study, methods, difficulties,and the source of corpus. It also contains a format review of co-occurrent Zai and Ye in modern Chinese,mainly involves the unconditional transfer sentence Zai X Ye Y and Zaiye which has been fixed into a word.Chapter 2 focuses on vary situations of co-occurrent Zai and Ye in a sentence.Some can be understood by analyzing Zai and Ye s literal meaning, we can catch the meaning of words literally from the context, so we call this condition the transparent structure.While some can’t get the whole meaning only by analyzing Zai and Ye’s literal meaning. We call them construction Zai X Ye Y,or unconditional transfer sentence. And sometimes Zai and Ye closely linked to be Zaiye Y. This kind of Zaiye can be said to be condensed into one word.Chapter 3 focuses on construction Zai X Ye Y,mainly involves the cognitive analysis and the variant of construction Zai X Ye Y. Construction Zai X Ye Y is very subjective, exaggerated and suppositional. It shows more personality. Construction Zai X Ye Y is really flexible.It has various forms, such as Zai X Ye/Hai/Dou/JiuJing Y and even if/whether/if Zai X Ye/Hai/Dau/Jiujing and so on. Theirs meanings and forms are both similar to construction Zai X Ye Y,so we treat them as the variants of construction Zai X Ye Y.Chapter 4 tries to find out the relationship between the three kinds of co-occurrent Zai and Ye. If the word Zai modified has clear definite component, Zai is inclined to be understood as repeat, continue,add,afterwards and intensification of the degree. If Zai is followed by bare form of a verb,Zai X Ye Y is inclined to become concession. And if the word between Zai and Ye further grammaticalized or even disappeared, Zai and Ye come together to become a branch of Zaiye semantic source.Chapter 5 is the conclusion of this thesis, and the viewpoints of the paper are summarized.