Research on the Cognitive Structure of Chinese Syntax

Author: Zhang Wangxi
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: This paper, titled "A Study on the Cognitive Structure of Chinese Syntactic," focuses on five important syntactic phenomena: "ba" sentences, "lian" sentences, complex predicates, syntactic reduplication, and prepositional derivation. It conducts research around the cognitive structure of syntax, aiming to explore the cognitive basis for the formation of the semantic structure of Chinese syntax. This paper also proposes some new understandings of the semantic mechanisms of Chinese syntax: (1) The semantics of specific syntactic structures come from a certain cognitive pattern in people's minds when grasping the external world, and this cognitive pattern constrains the cognitive structure of syntax; (2) Implicit quantity categories play a very important role in the cognitive structure of Chinese syntax, one of the semantic categories that have a profound influence on syntactic structures. It is a very important research task to deeply explore the semantic restrictive role of this implicit quantity category; (3) As the basic unit of semantic carriers, vocabulary has a clear interactive relationship with the semantic structure of syntax. Grasping this interactive relationship between syntax and vocabulary is a new angle for us to approach the study of Chinese syntax.
[AuthorInfo] Zhang Wangxi, male, was born in Wuhu City, Anhui Province, in November 1962. He received a Ph.D. in Literature in 2004. He is currently a professor at Beijing Language and Culture University and a doctoral supervisor in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. He graduated from the Chinese Department of Anhui University in July 1984 with a bachelor's degree and from the Chinese Department of Shandong University in July 1987 with a master's degree. Since July 1987, he has been engaged in editing, teaching, and research at Beijing Language and Culture University. In 1994, he was promoted to associate researcher in an exceptional manner. Since 1996, he has served as the deputy editor of the journal World Chinese Teaching. In 2001, he entered Shanghai Normal University to pursue a Ph.D. degree on a part-time basis. Since 2001, he has served as the deputy director of the Center for Chinese Language Teaching. In 2001, he was promoted to researcher. In 2003, he was added as a doctoral supervisor in the direction of Chinese Language Teaching in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. In June 2004, he received a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Shanghai Normal University with a degree in Literature.