Zhoushi Mingtong Ji Interrogative Sentences Research

Zhoush MingTong Ji is a great Literature of Taoist in Northern and Southern Dynasty, it was a diary of ZhouZiliang, Which was written in Spoken language. There was little research on its grammar so far. Zhoush MingTong Ji Interrogative Sentence Research studied much about three sentence ingredients, Interrogative Pronouns, Interrogative Adverbs and Interrogative Modals. In which I mainly depicted the development of “What” and the rest seventeen interrogative pronouns,“Qi” and the rest Interrogative adverbs “Ye” and the rest four interrogative modals before and after the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The study shows that there were rich Interrogative Modals,which not only inherited the ancient usage, but also developed some new usage. However, the Interrogative Tone Adverbs and Interrogative Modals were relatively simple. From a diachronic perspective, it eliminated a lot of pre-interrogative modals and adverbs, but from a synchronic perspective, its Interrogative adverbs and Interrogative modals was much more brief than contemporary literatures.The fifth chapter detailed classified the interrogative sentences of ZhouSh MingTong Ji, and concluded interrogative features of ZhouSh Ming Tong Ji based on the research of previous chapters, then, compare its interrogative to those in Shiji and ShiShuo Xin Yu, we found Zhou exhibits the following characteristics:1.Shi-Fei interrogative sentences’ structure was more simple, and often follows Modals at the end of the sentences, the number of interrogative tone words had been greatly reduced.2.Zheng-Fan interrogative sentences’ structure was more pure, there was only “VP-neg”structure without exception. In terms of the sentences’ structure or the negative adverbs’ usage,Zhou pros interrogative be more briefly.3.Choosing Interrogative sentences’ type was single,and there is no use of interrogative pronouns, there were only two related words “Wei” and “Weidang”. They relied much on interrogative Modals, but the modals ‘ number is rather small, and was only used at the end of the later selection limb.4.The number of interrogative pronouns in Interrogative Sentences Referring In Particular were one-third reduction than Shiji, with the elimination of the “Xi” “Hu” “Shu” “Hewu” etc.At the same time it developed the interrogative pronouns of system “What”, while there was almost no object pre-used cases, with a addition of a interrogative modal “Yi”, It also eliminated the modal “Zai”.5.The Rhetorical Interrogative Sentences’ modal adverbs also reduced a lot, out of the “Du”“Yong” “Gu”, Interrogative pronouns only had system “What” cases, the vast majority structure was the postposition of object. There is usage of “Zai”.