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attempt  to  answer  the  following  questions:  1.  Besides,  adjectives  and  verbs, are  there  any  other  part  of  speech  that  can  appear  in  the  structure?  2.  What  are  the semantic features of these words which can appear in the structure? 3. Whether the part of the speech of predicate “X” has an influence on the meaning of “X de bu neng zai X” structure. We will answer these questions by examining the characteristics of “X”. We can see from examples (48a)-(48e) that not all the adjectives can be the “X”. Adjectives  “简单(simple)”  and  “老(old)”  can  fit  in  “X  de  bu  neng  zai  X”  structure, while adjectives like “绿油油  (dark green)” ,“木制(wooden)” and “笔直(straight)” are not permitted into the structure.  Gradable  adjectives  are  adjectives  like  “old”  “beautiful”  and  “tall”.  You  can  be very  beautiful  or  more  beautiful.  Gradable  adjectives  have  scales  and  can  be  modified by degree adverb such as very, more and most which correspond to the Chinese adverbs “很”,  “更”  and  “最”  respectively.  Adjectives  in  examples  (48a)  and  (48b)  possess  the feature of gradability in that they can be modified by degree adverbs such as “很简单”, “更简单”, “最老”. 

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Conclusion 

To  sum  up,  this  thesis  adopts  the  theories  of  formal  semantics  to  analyze  the semantic features of “X de bu neng zai X” structure. The study has shown: 
(1)   Not  all  adjectives  can  fit  in  the  structure.  Besides,  some  verbs  and  nouns also can fit in the structure. 
(2)   “X de bu neng zai X” structure has two different meanings:  a. The degree of “X” has reached its maximum; b. “X” can not continue any more.  
(3) The difference of the meaning of the structure is influenced by the gradability of the predicate.  a.  When  “X”  is  a  gradable  predicate,  adverb  “zai”  is  a  comparative  marker and “bu neng zai X” is the degree complement of “X”. Therefore, the meaning of the structure takes (2a); Bare nouns also can fit in the structure in that they are  coerced  by  context  to  possess  the  property  of  adjectives  when  they express chartering features.  b. When “X” is a non-gradable predicate, adverb “zai” means “continuation”. “bu neng zai X” is the resultative complement of “X”. Therefore, the meaning of  the  structure  takes  (2b);  The  only  Non-gradable  predicates  can  fit  in  the structure  is  non-gradable  verbs  which  possess  the  feature  of  (-telos, +duration). 
(4) This  analysis  provides  a  degree-based  analysis  to  the  structure,  which  helps us understand better the meaning of 本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。