《绿野仙踪》是清代著名的长篇白话小说,代表了清代中叶语言的整体状貌。文章选取小说中"更""很(狠)""十分""竟"四个副词与现代汉语副词进行对比,从使用频率、所表意义、组合能力、句法功能等方面分析其在现代汉语中的发展及原因。
The Wonderful Wizard of Ozis a representative of the novels in vernacular Chinese in the Qing Danysty,and reflects the overall features of the language in the middle Qing Dynasty.The author of this paper selects four adverbs from it:Geng,Hen,Shifen,and Jing,compares them with their counterparts in modern Chinese,and analyze the development of these words and the causes of the development in modern Chinese from the perspective of the frequency of use,meaning,collocation,and syntactic functions.