Budan (不但) and Its Related Forms

Abstract

This paper is based on the corpus study, to clarify the progressive category embodied in budan（不但）. The syntactic features, pragmatics and collocation forms of budan（不但）are the objectives of this study and analysis. The progressive relationship of budan（不但）is reflected in the aspects of degree,  scope,  time-space,  quantity and negativity; It is proved that the sentence pattern budan（不但）can be ellipsised;  The pragmatic logic and subjective cognition of budan（不但）restrict the syntactic position of budan（不但）;  The differences in the collocation form of budan（不但）are in need of further explanation.