Title: Identification of Interrogative Sentences and Analysis of their Syntactic Structures in the Analects of Confucius
Abstract: According to the mistakes and shortcomings in the previous researches on interrogative sentences in the Analects of Confucius,we take into consideration of these problems:how to correctly distinguish between interrogative sentences,and how to analyze parts of speech at the syntactic level.In the Analects of Confucius,mostly dialogues between Confucius and his disciples,mood auxiliaries such as乎and与mark different kinds of sentences like exclamatory sentences,rhetorical sentences and imperative sentences,and mood adverbs like其and岂also play important roles in making a certain kind of mood.We take the interrogative pronoun何as a point case to show how to anatomize the syntactic structure of interrogative sentences.We also make it clear whether the character何is an object,an adverbial modifier or an attribute in different interrogative sentences.Only in this way can we understand the sentences better.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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