2015, Vol., No.48

JOURNAL OF CHINESE STUDIES 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.33

pISSN : 1229-3806 / eISSN : 2765-6330
https://journal.kci.go.kr/kucsi

I had finished the project “Philological research on Taoist scripture Buxu”. So, on the basis of the achievement of above-mentioned research project, I try to spread this theme with the topic “The archetype of Taoist Buxu and its application on ritual”. For this project theme, we will discuss the origin and prototype of Taoist Buxu, and touch the religious myth on Buxu. And then we attempt to analyse the applicative situation of Buxu on Taoist ritual during Six Dynasties. Secondly, it is necessary to check on the transformation of Buxu ritual post-Tang.

We find that a lot of copula sentences in the spoken modern Chinese language environment, often exhibit no verbal 'NP1 + NP2' form. For example, "Wo shi shanghairen." So, 'NP1 + is + NP2' and 'NP1 + NP2' is one structure or two structure? In this paper, this problem is to departure. In this paper, the basic ideological foundation: the sentence is consisted of Subject and Predication (Chomsky); and nominal components can not serve as the predication of a sentence. Therefore, we believe that the two structures is actually one structure, we regard the one is the verb ellipsis form than the other. Firstly, We find that There are many similarities characters between the English copula "be" and the Chinese 'shi', We refer to the analysis of English copula sentences as a basis for re-analysis of modern Chinese 'shi' copula sentence's structure and classification. We regard Chinese copula 'shi' as a 'raising verb', the 'Small clause' as its complement. Moreover, we distribute the 'Copula sentences' into three classes, 'entity sentences', 'predicational sentences'and 'specificaitonal sentenses'. Secondly, we reanalyses Chinese predicative DP serving as a predicate in sentence, and analyses which components play a role in the ellipsis copula sentences. Finally, summarize the limit condition of the Chinese copula ellipsis phenomena.

Chinese “de” sentence is a very complicated and diversified structure not only in form but also in its meaning. Among them, complement is a subject-predicate structure of the “de” sentence (“S+V+de+NP+AP/VP”) has some characteristics different from other “de” sentence, which is used to represent the causative events. For this reason, through the comparison of Chinese “S+V+de+NP+AP/VP” and Korean causative sentence (analytic causative construction), This research discusses their distinguishing features and its restricting factors in corresponding. For the same causative events, Chinese “S+V+de+NP+AP/VP” focuses on the consequences brought out by causee, i.e. the resultative causative, but Korean causative sentence focuses on the actions taken by causer, i.e. the directive causative with the meaning of purpose. It shows that these two causative sentences in Chinese and Korean are not exactly the same in the understanding of the causative. This difference is also reflected in the types of the subject. In the choice of subject, Chinese “S+V+de+NP+AP/VP” is unconfined, but Korean causative sentence is more restricted, tends to require that the subject is a high degree of animacy. It points out that “S+V+de+NP+AP/VP” corresponds to Korean causative sentence is mainly affected by the animacy hierarchy of the subject “S”.