Chinese classics grammar for high school is based on curriculum manuals. The theory of constituent has more problems than any other parts of Chinese classics grammar, while it takes up the least place. It doesn`t give clear concepts of subject, predi...
Chinese classics grammar for high school is based on curriculum manuals. The theory of constituent has more problems than any other parts of Chinese classics grammar, while it takes up the least place. It doesn`t give clear concepts of subject, predicate, object, and complement : sometimes these concepts are mixed with each other. Due to its unique properties such as sentence with dual structure, Chinese classics can be interpreted in many ways. Some scholars often fall into such a trap. They don`t determine sentence constituent in grammatical structure of Chinese classics, but just follow Korean translation. Or they make their decision without considering multiple interpretation or dual sentence structure. Sentence constituents can be judged in various ways according to the point of view, which brings about lots of confusion. Although it is impossible to eliminate all these problems, alternative grammar can minimize them. Alternative 1 contains subject, predicate, object, complement, adverbial, and determinative(or adnominal). Alternative 2 contains subject, predicate, guest constituent, adverbial, and determinative(or adnominal). Object and complement are combined into guest constituent in alternative 2. Since specific functional morpheme is not added to neither object nor complement in Chinese classics, sometimes it`s hard to determine whether they are object or complement. I put predicative complement and predicative guest constituent on each alternative as subordinate constituents to predicative. These are set up for the purpose of preventing the confusion brought by the predicative which also functions simultaneously as a complement or a guest constituent. Alternative 1 & 2 settled plenty of existing problems, but not completely. Therefore, Chinese classics grammar for high school, which needs further investigation, ought to be used at the least and go with academic grammar.