The Synchronic Distribution,Diachronic Development And Evolution Mechanisms Of The Contrastive Construction "X+V+X De N"

The contrastive construction "X+V+X deN",as"ni zou ni de yangguandao,wo guo wo de dumuqiao"(We are independent and irrelevant)is common in modern Chinese.And its syntactic,semantic and pragmatic features have been studied synchronically by some scholars who pay little attention to deep research from diachronic perspective.Within the framework of Construction Grammar,this thesis investigates a great deal of language materials mainly collected by searching "CCL corpus"(Center for Chinese Linguistics PKU),to explore the contrastive construction "X+V+X de N",and the whole thesis mainly includes three parts.The first part makes a systematic description of the synchronic distribution in modern Chinese of the construction "X+V+X de N".According to the two contrastive components "X+V+X de N" are parallel co-occurrence or not,it’s classified as dominant and recessive contrastive structures,and then the omission of their inner elements is discussed.Moreover,its distinctive structural feature has been embodied by comparison with other similar structures.In the second part,it’s discovered that the diachronic development of this contrastive construction is characterized with stages which are during and before Tang and Five Dynasties,during the Song and Yuan period,in the period of Ming dynasty,from the Manchu Dynasty to the Republic of China.Accordingly,full description and integrated analysis of its grammaticalization have been made by collecting,sorting and investigating ancient Chinese language materials.Moreover,there is alo statistical analysis of data to support it.Then this thesis further inquiries the grammaticalization process of this contrastive construction from the perspective of its evolution mechanisms,and it’s proved that the grammaticalization is influenced by both the specific restrictions of this construction itself and the induced mechanisms of the internal language system.The study of this thesis thoroughly probes into the synchronic distribution,the diachronic development and evolution mechanisms of the contrastive construction"X+V+X de N" by illustrating its examples in Chinese spoken dialogue synchronically and diachronically.Integrating the bottom-up restitution with the top-down analysis primarily,it tends to grasp the relations between universality and particularity of this kind of contrastive construction.So the attempt of this case study shows a way to explore the grammaticalization of construction.