The dissertation,““A Study on the Verbs of “ Liye bamboo slips in Qin Dynasty(one)””, focuses on the language material of “ Liye bamboo slips in Qin Dynasty(one)”of the Hunan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology edition. This research is restricted to the verbs of “ Liye bamboo slips in Qin Dynasty(one)”, and the researchers are required to have the comprehensive understanding of the material, “ Liye bamboo slips in Qin Dynasty(one)”. The best access to understand bamboo slips words is through the new annotation of Liye Qin jiandu jiaoshi (di yi juan) edited by Chen Wei. The new annotation is the revision of bamboo slips images and original annotation both released in “ Liye bamboo slips in Qin Dynasty(one)”. Based on Liye Qin jiandu jiaoshi (di yi juan), the dissertation discusses the usage and feature of verbs, and classify the verbs of “ Liye bamboo slips in Qin Dynasty(one)”into two groups: One-syllable and Two-syllables to know the performance of verbs in “ Liye bamboo slips in Qin Dynasty(one)”.
There are six chapters in the dissertation.
Chapter I is Introduction of dissertation. The introduction is to describe the classification of former researches and their standards for verbs research. On this basis, the dissertation here poses the methods of verbs selection and classification.
One-syllable verbs is by far the most numbers in “ Liye bamboo slips in Qin Dynasty(one)”. Considering the numbers of different verbs and length of chapter, the writer classifies One-syllable verbs into two groups: Action verb and Non-action verb. Both verbs are at the same position of verb hierarchy. Action verb and Non-action verb are presented in chapter II and chapter III respectively. Chapter II is dedicated to presenting Action verb.
Further to Chapter II, Chapter III is to present Non-action verb in “ Liye bamboo slips in Qin Dynasty(one)”. Here involves six categories in Non-active verb: Tendency verb、Emotional verb、State verb、Preserving verb、Voluntary verb、Similar verb. Chapter III will present each category by example verbs.
Chapter IV belongs to the Two-syllable verbs. According to the compound of meaning of Two-syllable verbs, it profiles Two-syllable verbs by four categories: Escaped polysyllabic verb、Synonymous polyphonic verb、Partially phoned verb and Antisense polysyllabic verb. Chapter IV will also present each one by example verbs.
Chapter V probes to One-syllable verbs with respect to word quantity and word frequency by counting the number of occurrences and number of times. It also indicates the aspect of high, mid and low word frequency.
Chapter VI is the conclusion at last. The writer sums up the result of verbs research and proposes the outlook of dimensions for future researches.