The Characteristics and Model Explanation of Chinese Imperative Interrogative Sentences
The Chinese imperative interrogative sentence is a type of question that conveys an imperative meaning,expecting the listener to take action either in acceptance or rejection.This unique sentence structure can be elucidated through the"compound speech act"model.Its features are evident in four primary aspects:the subject,predicate,modal adverb,and modal particle.The subject in these sentences is typically first or second person.When the subject is"we,"it is used in the plural form,which has a lim-ited scope of application.The predicate in Chinese imperative interrogatives can either be a standard predicate or a variant.However,there are only two types of predicate variants:one is the construction"predicate+'a',"and the other involves overlapping clauses(e.g.,ABAB,AA,A-A,AAB).In modern Chinese,while both functional mood adverbs and future mood adverbs can appear in such sentences,their occurrence is relatively infrequent.There are four typical modal particles found in modern Chinese that can be in-cluded in an imperative interrogative sentence:"Mo","er","ba",and"ah"(with"ah"sometimes appearing as"ah/ah").It's important to note that the use of"ah"and"ah/ah"is not mandatory.
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