论“某”及“某”字结构的有定与无定

Abstract

“Mou” is frequently used in modern Chinese, which is often applied in news and legal language. Previous studies have focused on its grammar, with insufficient semantics and pragmatics. As a special implicit pronoun, it is generally regarded as indeterminate, but in some special contexts, it can be definite. First of all, there are two cases when it expresses the referential meaning: The first one is it would belong to definite elements when referring to people or things; the second one is it would belong to the indeterminate component when the ostensible reference refers to people or things. Secondly, the person it refers to when representing the third person is a definite component. Thirdly, when it acts as a syntactic component, it has the special indeterminate subject and definite object. Finally, when it acts as a grammatical component in a special sentence pattern, there are exceptions to the definite and indeterminate situations of the people and things it refers to, for example, the indeterminate situation of the object of“ Ba ”and the subject of“ Bi ”, while the definite situation of the object of definite sentence. In view of its particularity and complexity, it is necessary to make a comprehensive study of the definition and indeterminacy from the aspects of semantics, syntax and pragmatics, so as to enriching relevant studies.