Abstract: This paper investigated the adverbial morphemes + shi/wei (是/为) compounds comprehensively based on diachronic and synchronic corpuses. Firstly, we analyzed the diachronic evolution of wei (为) shi (是) and their compounds with degree adverbial morphemes, also compared the differences and the reasons. And we gave the degree adverbial morphemes an accessible analyzing to the compounds from qualitative and quantitative ways, and tried to seek for the conditions under which wei (为) / shi (是) compounded with degree adverbial morphemes.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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