현대중국어의 ‘종결성’과 ‘종결성분’ ― 어기조사와 보어 구문을 중심으로

Abstract

This study investigated ‘sentence-final Forms(or sentence-final moods)’ and ‘ending markers’, offering Chinese language explanations. Predicates are one of a sentence’s key components; they consist of grammatical components that portray the speaker’s psychological attitude toward an event and their intentions and perspectives with respect to the listener. Accordingly, in order to complete a sentence formally and semantically with respect to a predicate, an ending marker must appear. Here, rather than directly engaging with a sentence’s proposition, the ending remark is related to how the speaker expressed the proposition to the listener in order to perform syntactic functions to determine the type of sentence. As one of the Chinese language’s ending remarks, the modal particle was not only used as a means of expressing the speaker’s phonological changes and nuances, it was also discovered to be an essential grammatical form, helping sentences reach a formally and semantically complete state. Furthermore, in Chinese, the type of sentence to be expressed is determined by the speaker’s choice of ending remarks-in other words, by the modal particle-and this decision depends on the speaker’s psychological attitude since they will be delivering the sentence’s proposition. In addition, infinitives, aspect markers, and markers that are similar to aspect markers will require detailed consideration in relation to ending markers.