Title: TRACE to the Source of the Sentence Type of "wei-zhi-zhiqian(未至之前)"
Abstract: Based on the corpus,it has been proved by preliminary study through semantics analysis and formal verification that the source of the sentence type of wei VP zhiqian(未VP之前),for example,wei-zhi-zhiqian(未至之前) can be traced back to the sentence type of wei VP which contains the meaning of time in the Pre-Qin period.The sentence type of wei VP(未VP) not only consists of the sentence type of wei-zhi(未至) + place+ number,but also the sentence type of wei-zhi(未至)+number(distance or time).The sentences formed according to wei VP(未VP) which contains the meaning of time are mostly sentences of two or more clauses and the types of the semantic relations between the clauses have decreased gradually along with the development of the history.These kinds of complex sentences in different periods of the history are all mainly coordinate sentences and causal sentences.wei(未),shangwei(尚未),weiceng(未曾),buceng(不曾) mei(没),meiyou(没有),etc.generally serve as the negative words of the sentence type of wei VP zhiqian(未VP之前) in order to show the objective condition;bu(不) rarely serves as its negative word influenced by the context and the semantics.bu VP zhiqian(不VP之前) mainly expresses subjective attitudes.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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