Research on Chinese compound sentences

Author: Xing Fuyi
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: This book, A Study of Chinese Compound Sentences, actually has very limited content and leaves many unresolved issues. Let alone the fact that Chinese includes both modern and ancient Chinese, and modern Chinese encompasses both the common language and dialects, this book focuses solely on the study of compound sentences in the common language of modern Chinese. Even within the common language of modern Chinese, there are some very ordinary phenomena for which I have not yet provided answers, nor do I even have the ability to do so. For example, in the group of words "——," "" indicates progression, "" indicates parallelism, but what about ""? Is it indicating progression or parallelism? In the sentence "，," "" seems to indicate progression. In the sentence "、，、，," "" seems to indicate parallelism. So, what is the actual situation? How can the nature of the word "" be described comprehensively and accurately? Another example: "," "," and ""—do these three words have any differences? If they are completely identical, why can all of them survive and maintain such high usage frequency? If they are not completely identical, in what aspects do their differences lie? I discussed this with my student, Professor Li Yuming. I said, "Yuming, the more I study, the more confused I become!" Yuming replied, "Xing teacher, you're experiencing advanced confusion!" Yuming is very eloquent and gives clever answers, but even the most advanced confusion is still confusion! In Yan Shu's A Spring Night in Jade Tower, there are two lines. I changed two characters in them to say: "，!" This probably reflects my current state of mind.