汉语性质形容词作谓语的生成阐释-外国语言学及应用语言学专业论文.docxVIP

Acknowledgments I am very excited for the fulfillment of my thesis. Here I would like to extend my graceful thanks to all the people who have given me a hand during my writing of this thesis. First of all, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to my supervisor Professor Yang Chaojun for his patience, encouragement, guidance and advice throughout the writing of this thesis. Secondly, I would also like to extend my sincere thanks to Professor Zhuang Huibin for his patience, insightful advice, helpful suggestions, encouragement and support. And thanks for his supplying of relevant materials. In addition, I would like to thank my best friend Dai Zhen for her time spent brainstorming and discussing with me and also her encouragement. Special thanks also go to my family for their encouragement and support. Last, I would like to give my special thanks to Henan University for allowing me to use her library and to the staffs working there, who are also of great assistance. I I PAGE PAGE IV Abstract Chinese adjective, especially Chinese qualitative adjective is very special, as it can be the predicate of a sentence without the help of a copula. Most attention is focused on this linguistic phenomenon, such as studies on the part of speech of Chinese adjective; Chinese adjective-predicate-sentence; conditions on which Chinese adjective can be predicate and so on. However, there are few specialized researches paying attention to the problem of Chinese adjective functioning as predicate itself, not even to say how Chinese qualitative adjective functions as predicate. Besides, except for the phenomenon of Chinese qualitative adjective functioning as predicate without a copula, we find in many relevant materials, such as linguistic typology, materials on ―shi‖ that Chinese qualitative adjective can also be predicate with ―shi‖ preceding it and sometimes with ―shi‖ preceding it and ―de‖ following it. But there exist some doubts waiting for clarification i