《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。选取《绿野仙踪》中"极、太、甚、颇"四个高频率副词与现代汉语副词进行对比,其使用频率、所表意义、组合能力、句法功能等方面都与现代汉语副词存在差异。
" A Journey to the Immortal",a famous Chinese vernacular fiction,represents the overall appearance of the language used in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. Four frequently used adverbs " Ji,Tai,Shen,and Po",are chosen from this novel to make comparison with modern Chinese adverbs. It is concluded that they are different in the use of frequency,meaning,combination,and syntactic functions,etc.