A review on eighty years of expectation research on Chinese:Theory evolution and future prospects
The article summarizes and reviews the history and current status of the stud-y of expectation on Chinese since the book Outline of Chinese Grammar.The article divides the study of expectation on Chinese into three stages,i.e.,expectation as a temporal work-ing conception(1944-2003),linguistic category(2004-2020),and cognitive category re-search(2021-present),and then summarizes and comments on the representative achieve-ments of each stage.The article explores important theoretical issues related to the study of expectations,including the definition,nature,types of expectations,and the relationship between expectations and mirativity,as well as counter-mirativity.It also reviews research achievements related to expectations in other linguistic categories.Finally,several sugges-tions are put forward for future study on expectation.