Research on the Subclass Attribution of Adverbs of “tài ”, “duō” and “hǎo” in Modern Chinese
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DOI: 10.25236/emcs.2018.117
Author(s)
Shuang Dai, Chunhong Qi
Corresponding Author
Shuang Dai
Abstract
The academic circles do not agree on the subclass attribution of adverbs of “tài”, “duō” and “hǎo” in Chinese. Using experimental phonetics, this paper confirmed that the pragmatic features of the subjective information of “ hǎo” is not as good as “ tài ” and “ duō” do. “ tài ” and “duō” tend to act as the focus in the exclamatory sentence, “hǎo” is often the second accent of the whole sentence. The typical degree adverb “hǎo” rarely plays the focus and it can also be one according to the pragmatic needs. “tài ”, “duō” and “hǎo” are obviously different in the focus of a sentence, which shows that the pragmatic features of the subjective information of “tài ” and “ duō” are very strong, which should belong to modal adverb. The ability of “hǎo” to discourse subjective information is slightly less than that of “ tài ” and “duō”, but because of the subjectivity “hǎo” expresses, it should still belong to modal adverb.
Keywords
“tài ”,“duō”, “hǎo”, “hěn”, Focus, Accent, Modal adverb, Degree adverb