Research On Acquisition Verbs In Modern Chinese

This thesis researches seven acquisition verbs(de dao,huo de,qu de,huo qu,shou huo,jie shou,shou dao)in terms of their differengt usage and meanings.These seven verbs are highly used in Chinese and easily misused by foreign students.Then,based on error corpus,the thesis categorizes and analyzes the biased errors of these acquisition verbs to provide reference to Chinese teaching.In terms of the usage,the thesis researches the high frequency collocations and class connection of acquisition verbs.Through the statistic analysis of the high frequency concurrence words,we find that the objects of acquisition verbs are mainly nouns and the modifiers used as adverbials are mainly adverbs.The objects of different acquisition verbs have their own abstractness and concreteness as well as positivity and negativity.With regard to the class connection,we contrast the left connection and the right connection of acquisition verbs separately and their different syntactic forms.we conclude that the class connection of "de dao" is the most diversified.And among all the class connection,there is conformity of acquisition verbs in "verb+modifier+noun",while others are different.In terms of the semantics,we describe the semantic features of acquisition verbs and their objects in detail based on BBC corpus as well as the high frequency collocations and the class connection discussed in the first chapter.We find that all the acquisition verbs in this thesis have the following semantica features:[+conciousness],[+abstractness],[+positivity],[+initiative],[+moderate or lower degree],[+discontinuity]and[+measurability].There is an obvious distinction on whether the subjects of actions are concious,whether the objects are positive and whether the targets of acquisition do directed movement.In the last chapter,we first study the dictionary definitions of these acquisition verbs and complement the definitions with the results of the previous two chapters.Then,we analyze the classifications and the causes of the biased errors of these verbs.The main reasons for the biased errors are the misusage of verbs and errors or miss of the objects,among which the most common is the misusage of verbs caused by the similar usage but differnt meanings.On this basis,this thesis offers some suggestions on relevant textbooks and teaching of acquisition verbs.