《庄子》形容词紧缩句的结构特点和语义类别

The Unique Structure Feature and the Semantic Category of Adjective Contract Sentence in "Zhuang zi"

形容词紧缩句是指由形容词充当分句内谓语的紧缩句。《庄子》共有这类句子170句,只有10句不用关联词语,作为紧缩句句型标志的常用关联词语有“而、则、虽、故、乃、非”等。从语义类别来看,主要有假设、条件、承接、转折等几种关系。

This paper studies about the adjective contract sentence, which refers to the kind of contract sentence in which adjective works as predicate in subordinate clause. In ＂Zhuang zi＂, there are 170 such kind sentences, only 10 of which don＇t use connecting words. The common connecting words which are the sentence pattern symbol of contract sentence are ＂er, ze, sui, gu, nai, fei＂. According to the semantic category, there are several semantic relations of them： hypothesis, condition, connection and disjunctive.