《红楼梦》和《儿女英雄传》中高程度副词之比较

A Contrastive Study on Superlative Adverbs in A Dream of Red Mansion and The Biography of the Heroic Youth

本文对《红楼梦》和《儿女英雄传》中的高程度副词进行对比研究,详细探悉18世纪中叶至19世纪中叶此类副词的应用情况。研究发现,两书中此类副词存在同中有异的特点。其相同的方面,如组合功能、句法功能、出现频次排列顺序等,有助于我们了解这一时期此类副词的总体分布情况;其不同的方面则有助于窥探18世纪中叶至19世纪中叶这一个世纪内高程度副词的发展趋势。

This paper deals with a contrastive study of superlative adverbs in A Dream of Red Mansion and The Biography of the Herroic Youth with the purpose to show the usage of superlative adverbs from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century.The results told us differences and similarities coexisted in the application of superlative adverbs from both books.Superlative adverbs had similarities in their syntactic formation,grammatical function and the order of word frequency while the differences lay in the frequency variation of some adverbs in the two books,all of which help us better know and understand the features of superlative adverbs in that century and their developmental patterns.