현대중국어 ‘全’과 ‘都’의 의미기능 비교

Abstract

The topic of this paper is semantic comparison of adverbs ‘dou’ and ‘quan’ in Modern Mandarin. ‘dou’ and ‘quan’ are the range adverbs in Modern Mandarin. These two adverbs always come immediately before the verb in order to have syntactic and semantic similarities. These two adverbs also have many differences between them as well. This paper is made up of three parts. Part one focuses on the study of ‘dou’ and ‘quan’s universal quantification meaning. T&T(2005) states that ‘quan’ imposes a maxim reading. but ‘dou’ does not impose this requirement. Part two focuses on the study of ‘dou’ and ‘quan’s collective reading and distributive reading. The sentence that contain ‘quan’ always has only a collective reading, but ‘dou’ has a collective reading and distributive reading. The “Mei…… dou” structure is word “Mei” and “Dou” represent universal quantification and distributive reading. Finally, this paper is a study of the ‘dou’ and ‘quan’'s event structure in Chinese through semantic requirements and properties. A sentence written included 'dou' mostly indicates mean of ‘telic’，‘change of state’, ‘achievement’, ‘attainment’.