A Study Of The Chinese Adverb “X+ Zhe(着)” From Multi-angle

In modern Chinese, there are a lot of the structure of “X+ zhe(着)” have been lexicalized. Which include being a verb, becoming a preposition, also as an adverb. Among those words, the adverb “X+zhe(着)” have relatively complex structures and distinctive features. In this paper, we choose the Adverb “X+zhe(着)” as the research object, select five typical adverbs to study from multi-angle, in order to have a comprehensive understanding of the Adverb “X+zhe(着)”.This thesis including seven chapters among which the research status and value of “X+zhe(着)”, judgment and classification of the adverb “X+zhe(着)”, as well as the research objectives, domains and methods are illustrated in the part of introduction, its first chapter.The second and third chapter mainly focuses on the“V+zhe(着)”adverbs,choosing“gan zhe”(赶着)and“kui zhe”(亏着)as a case to study in terms of syntax structure,semantic features,pragmatic functions and the grammaticalization.The fouth chapter is devoted to the research on adverbs of“Adj+zhe(着)”.Due to the limited personal capacities and time,the author only chooses“ming zhe”(明着)as a case study.The syntactic structure,semantic features,pragmatic functions the process of lexicalization and grammaticalization,formation and generative mechanism of the adverb“ming zhe”(明着)are analyzed in this chapter.The fifth chapter is devoted to the research on adverbs of“N+zhe”.“huo zhe”(伙着)is chosen as a case.The case study is undertaken from perspectives of syntactic structure,semantic features,pragmatic functions and diachronic evolvement.The sixth chapter is devoted to the analysis of“yan kan zhe”(眼看着)from multiple perspectives which mainly include syntactic structure,semantic features,pragmatic functions and diachronic evolvement.Meanwhile,the author draws a comparison between“yan kan zhe”(眼看着)and“kan zhe”(看着),and summarizes the major features of and the diachronic evolvement rules of“yan kan zhe”(眼看着).The seventh chapter is devoted to the systematic summary of the adverbs of “X+zhe(着)”. The author sorts out the similarities and features of the adverbs of “X+zhe(着)” discussed in the Chapter One to Five, and tries to discover the grammatical rules of the adverbs. Finally, the author provides some suggestions on inclusion of the adverbs of “X+zhe(着)” in dictionaries.