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On the semantic characteristic of Modern Chinese adverb cai

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2011, (26), pp.55-75
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2011..26.004
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Published : June 30, 2011

유승봉 1 진현 2

1華東師範大學
2한국외국어대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Based on event semantics, this paper will study the “subjective quantity” of the Modern Chinese adverb “cai”, and then re-examine the underlying semantics of “cai”. First, we think that it is biased that the subjective quantity of “cai” comes from the comparison of the numeral in the sentence. Secondly, through studying thematic theory, Conceptual Semantics and other theories related to “event”, we consider that the “event” acts as a subjective state of reality after processing the formation of the concept of psychological structure. On the basis of the event, we point out that the function of “cai” is to characterize the sequence between the sub-events that compose composite event. According to the properties of the sequence of events, “sequence” can be divided into two categories: one is characterized by events between the “natural order of events” ; the second is “subjective cognitive order” to stress the non-equilibrium relationship between the sub-events and this is the underlying motivation of “subjective quantity” of “cai”.

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