THE COMPLEMENT OF DEGREE AS A MEANS OF IMPLEMENTING MODAL-EVALUATED VALUES IN CHINESE

Abstract

The article presents a comprehensive study of the degree complement as a means of realizing modal-evaluative meanings in the Chinese language. The study of this issue is an urgent problem, since the analysis of syntactic modality in the Chinese language is an understudied section of modern linguistics, which is not paid enough attention to both in Russian and foreign sinology. Traditionally, it is customary to explore the lexical means of representing the category of modality in the Chinese language, ignoring other ways of its actualization, which, no doubt, function in this language. The article reveals in detail the specific forms of sentences containing the complement of the degree, as well as the variability of information codes embedded in the reported, depending on the choice of one or another grammatical form of the statement. In addition, the author makes an attempt to systematize and describe in detail the specific features inherent in one type or another of sentences with a degree complement. The practical significance of this study lies in the formation of new approaches and views on the modality system in the Chinese language, the expansion of the scientific and practical base in the field of such studies and the possibility of using the presented materials both in the process of teaching the Chinese language and in translation activities. The author concludes about the need for an integrated approach to the study of the category of modality in the Chinese language, taking into account the specifics, implying the inclusion of estimated values in the total field of modality.