Subjective Study Of Monosyllabic Incremental Adverbs

The studies on quantity category and linguistic subjectivity are two important parts of the study of Chinese Linguistics. As a result, study on incremental adverbs has been emerging. On the basis of previous research, this article intends to deep further of a subcategory of the incremental adverbs-monosyllabic ones. We try to figure out the way the quantity increased and the scalar models of all these increased quantities, which help to research the subjectivity of these monosyllabic incremental adverbs from a different angle.Firstly, this article discovers the similarity of these monosyllabic incremental adverbs in syntactic distribution---all of them can be used in the structure of "P, +Incremental Adverb+Q" to show the increased quantities. Also, the discrepancy between each other is found out. The syntactic distribution of each monosyllabic incremental adverb is reclassified according to its incremental features.Secondly, this article finds out that all monosyllabic incremental adverbs can act as increment operators to process information. The scalar model of each monosyllabic incremental adverb shows the way the quantity increased. Because of the similarity in syntactic distribution, they share the same objective scalar model. Individually, they have their own semantic and syntactic distribution, which leads to their unique incremental usage.Finally, this article relates three typical subjective characteristics of these monosyllabic incremental adverbs with their scalar model. Subjective perspective, emotion and understanding are all shown in scalar model, which is the reason why the subjectivity exists in each incremental adverb.