Research On The Tense-aspect Category In Lao Qi Da

The study of Chinese tense aspect system has been going on since the 1920 s and has achieved fruitful results.Based on Gong Qianyan’s theory of tense and aspect,this paper describes and compares the expressions of “tense” and “aspect” in four versions of Lao Qi Da,in order to fully understand the category characteristics of tense and aspect in Lao Qi Da.The thesis consists of four parts:The introduction mainly introduces the general situation of the study of Lao Qi Da and the general situation of the study of Chinese tense form.The first chapter is the study of tense category in Lao Qi Da.The tense category in Chinese is expressed by lexical means.Event time,reference time and speaking time constitute the main contents of Chinese tense category,and the most important of them is reference time.This chapter describes three ways of expression of Lao Qi Da referring to time: taking time noun as reference,time adverb as reference and “another event” as reference.There are four kinds of time nouns that refer to time: past time nouns,present time nouns,future time nouns and time nouns that are directly located on the time axis.There are twelve nouns expressing “past”: night,yesterday,previous year,last year,current year,recent;There are nine nouns for “now”: now,this time,this morning,this evening,tonight,today,this year and this spring;There are three nouns for “future”:tomorrow,recently and in the future;There are twenty nouns directly located on the time axis: Wugeng,January,December,May,June,October,this month,spring,summer,autumn,winter,and the end of the year.There are three types of time adverbs that refer to time,which are time adverbs that refer to the past,time adverbs that refer to the present and time adverbs that refer to the future.There are ten adverbs of time expressing “past”:always,never,original,and already;There are three adverbs expressing “now”: now and just;A adverb expressing “future”: not long.There are three ways of expression with“another event” as a reference: “when”,“compare to...”The second chapter is the research on the genre category of Lao Qi Da.Based on Gong Qianyan’s classification and integration of aspect,this chapter divides the expression of aspect in Lao Qi Da into the following four categories.Table complete or implemented: “ V over” Table experience: “Once V” To indicate the duration or duration:“Positive V”;The table will go as follows: “want to+V” “soon +V” “just+V”.Different aspect expressions can be used at any time in the past,present or future to form different types of tense and aspect relations.The third chapter is the summary of the expression of tense and aspect in Lao Qi Da and the thinking of the theory of tense and aspect.Firstly,it analyzes the expression of tense and aspect in Lao Qi Da by means of mathematical statistics.Secondly,it describes the relationship between aspect mark and situation type in Lao Qi Da by enumeration.The last part is the author’s thinking on the study of Chinese tense and aspect in the process of writing.The study of Chinese tense and aspect can not copy the western theory,but should be based on the language reality,treat the foreign theoretical system with discrimination,and constantly develop and improve the theory of Chinese tense and aspect.The innovation of this thesis is using ERS theory to analyze the tense aspect relationship in Lao Qi Da,which reflects the tense aspect expression of Chinese more scientifically and weakens the errors that Chinese can only rely on language sense to a certain extent.