Zuozhuan as an Example to Discussing Generation and Development of Semantic Categories of Time in Ancient Chinese
| Autor: | Yi-Kuan Wu, 吳怡寬 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 102 Scopes involving meanings of “time” in ancient Chinese are the ranges of the study of the thesis; origins and linguistic practices of same ranges in ancient Chinese, on the other hand, are the debate to confer. That is to say, systematic means to describing and explaining sentences involved with semantic meanings of “time” in ancient Chinese are the main purpose of the thesis. First, observations on generating and transformations of the culture in ancient times may be learned from oracle-bone inscriptions and bronze characters and materials in documentation from early Qin Dynasty, so that to understand generating backgrounds of time semantic categories of ancient Chinese. On the other hand, as days, hours, months, years, seasons, and solar terms were adopted as time measurements in ancient times, it is necessary to learn the developing orders of these measurements. Documents showed that days, hours, months and years were probably developed in Shang Dynasty, while seasons and solar terms gradually became mature approximately during the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring State Period, as well as developing to a scientific calendar system. Secondly, the book Zuozhuan is to be adopted to describe forms and functions in vocabulary (such as nouns and adverbs) and phrases (such as noun and preposition phrases) of “time” categories in the thesis. To be more specific, nouns of time possess practical meanings of time, which include absolute, opposite, and periodic features; yet the nouns may also form noun phrases with other terms. Additionally, as modifiers of verbs, adverbs of time are used to determine ambits of time. Still further, because noun phrases and preposition phrases are always related to space, it is needed to confer how they from cognitive linguistics of metaphors in ancient Chinese. Finally, taking predicate’s events as the core, internal temporal (aspects) and exterior temporal (tenses) structures are to be observed. Moreover, because aspects are presented in the form of vocabulary (adverbs of time) in ancient Chinese, only the “perspective aspect” may thus be used as the grammatical marker. Tenses, on the other hand, are expressed in two forms of vocabulary (nouns of time and adverbs of time) and phrases (noun phrases and preposition phrases), they may hence be classified into absolute tenses and opposition tenses. |
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