현대 중국어 ‘每’와 ‘各’의 의미기능 연구

Abstract

The topic of this paper is to compare semantic functions of demonstrative pronouns ‘Mei’ and ‘Ge’ in modern Mandarin. These two demonstrative pronouns expressing ‘every’ or ‘each’ in Chinese have been studied by many scholars since their characteristics are distinctive from common pronoun ‘Zhe’, ‘Na’, ‘Nayang’. This paper is made up of two parts. Part one focuses on the study of ‘Mei’ and ‘Ge’s grammatical meaning. Using ‘Mei’, ‘Ge’ and ‘Dou’ as examples, this paper addresses sentence meaning and the semantics of distributive operators. When ‘Mei’ and ‘Dou’ co-occur, Huang shi zhe(1996) stated that when there is an indefinite or a reflexive object NP, ‘Dou’ becomes optional. But in the sentence that contains ‘Ge’, because of ‘Ge’s individuality, ‘Dou’ becomes optional. Part two focuses on the study of ‘Mei’s and ‘Ge’s quantification meaning. This paper’s opinion is that the sentence containing ‘Mei’ and ‘Ge’ must meet distributive interpretation and universal meaning, and then the sentence can be established. This study helped understand that natural language could be expressed in formal language.