汉英疑问词的语法化研究-英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

分类号 分类号 密级 学校代码 10542 学号2Q】202080645 A Study of the Grammaticalization of Chinese and English Interrogatives 汉英疑问词的语法化研究 研 究 方 向 适主堂 湖南师范大学学位评定委员会办公室 二。一五年六月 万方数据 A A Study of the Grammaticalization of Chinese and English Interrogatives AThesis Submitted to Foreign Studies College Of Hunan Normal University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For The Degree of Master ofArts in the Subj ect of English Linguistics and Literature By Zhou Zhenzhu Under the Supervision of Professor Tang Yanling Changsha，Hunan， June，2015 万方数据 AbstractInterrogative Abstract Interrogative sentence are the most common phenomenon of language use，while interrogative words，as the carrier of interrogative information，are also the most common part of speech．Hence，the study of interrogative sentences and interrogative words has been paid close aRention to by scholars for ages．Scholars at home and abroad classified and described interrogative words from the angle of traditional grammar and generative grammar．What is more，they especially gave high aRention to interrogative pronouns．This thesis，regarding Chinese and English interrogatives as research obj ects，based on the theory of grammaticalization in cognitive linguistics，analyses the transmutation of interrogatives in detail．Although the two kinds of interrogatives belong to different language systems，both of them have the interrogative usages． Thus，they have something in common on the aspects of the usages． As to the contrast of interrogatives，there are already some related studies．Since those studies are mainly about the contrast of the interrogative usages，this thesis mainly focuses on the relationship between interrogatives and focus as well as the transmutation of Chinese and English interrogatives．Through the studies of this thesis，we can conclude that there are various kinds of methods to convey the meanings 万方数据 万方数据 万方数据 of of focus，and also there are shared features of interrogatives and focus． Besides，the change of the focus