Title: The Formation and Development of Adverb "zhong yu"
Abstract: The adverbzhong yudevied from separate sentential units that haven't formed a word.And its formation is closely related to the sentence structure zhong + AP,VP,S.There are two formal signs to conclude zhong yu as an adverb: first:the predicate components which lie behindzhong yuact as the predicate of the sentence;second:removal of zhong yu will not affecte the sense of the sentence,there are time words in some sentences.The time adverb zhong yu had been formed in the period of Wen-Jin and had matured in the period of Tang-Yuan-Ming;it can also acted modality adverb in Qing dynasty.The main factor of its lexicalization is the change of its syntactic position and metaphor mechanism.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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