A Survey Of The Typology Of Chinese Passive Sentences

Since the 1950 s,the study of passive sentences in Mandarin has never stopped,especially in the 21 st century,it is still one of the hot spots in grammar research.There are numerous relevant literatures,and this paper will re-judge Mandarin passive sentences based on the rich achievements of previous scholars,summarize their sentence pattern semantic features,and draw on the research results in the field of Chinese history to divide them into "weak passive sentences","strong passive sentences" and "quasi-strong passive sentences" in detail.Secondly,we systematically investigate the seven dialect areas of Chinese dialects and the passive sentences in Chinese minority languages to explore their similarities and differences.Finally,from the perspective of linguistic typology,the thesis investigates and analyzes the similarities and differences in the corpus of passive sentences in Mandarin Chinese,Chinese dialects and the common language of ethnic minorities.This paper is divided into the following parts:The first part is the preface,which briefly introduces the reason of this research,the domestic research status,the research significance,the research method,the source of the corpus and the explanation.The second part is the main body of this research,which is divided into four chapters.The second chapter mainly investigates the passive sentence in Mandarin Chinese,firstly redefines the definition of the passive sentence,then summarizes its semantic and structural types,and then summarizes the syntactic structure of the passive sentence in a basic formula and three types.The main body of the third chapter is the investigation of the passive sentences in the seven major Chinese dialects.First,the sub-dialects of the seven dialect areas covering the major dialects as far as possible are collected,and then the passive sentence language materials of the 40 dialect points are investigated and analyzed.Then,the syntactic structure,passive marks and semantic categories of the passive sentences are abstracted and summarized respectively,so as to find out the similarities and differences among them and compare the "Pu-Fang" passive sentences.The main body of the fourth chapter is the investigation of passive sentences in44 ethnic minority languages in China.According to the word order classification of SVO,SOV and VSO,the syntactic structure,the similarities and differences of passive marks and semantic categories of passive sentences in minority languages are observed and analyzed,and then the passive sentences in "universal-minority languages" are compared.The main part of the fifth chapter is a typological comparison between Mandarin passive sentences and Mandarin dialect passive sentences,Mandarin passive sentences and minority language passive sentences.The third part is the conclusion,which mainly summarizes the similarities and differences of passive sentences in Mandarin Chinese,Chinese dialects and the common language of ethnic minorities in China.