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When discussing the existence of conjunctive particle “toiu” in “adnominal clause constructions”, one often starts with sentence analysis to investigate the identities of modified noun, or the relationship between noun modifying clause and modified noun. This thesis takes on a viewpoint distinctive from that of existing research and initiates from the ground of article analysis, exploring the function of “toiu” and contextual characteristics of articles containing “toiu”. According to the result, “toiu” as conjunctive particle possesses the function of reinterpretation. Moreover, by inspecting articles containing “toiu”, one is able to find evidence of anaphoric relation between noun modifying clause and precedent context. Finally, by bringing in perspective of contextual expansion in syntactic, it can be proved that “toiu” is not only used to bridge noun modifying clause and modified noun at the sentence level, but could also serve as the connection between different articles at article level and complete contextual expansion.
The conclusion of this research can be summarized into three parts. First of all,standing on the ground of article analysis, the function of “toiu” can be further classified into four subcategories of “reinterpretation” by differentiation in accordance to the relationship between the noun modifying clause followed by “toiu” and identities of precedent context. Also, by examining the presence of prerequisite condition for reinterpretation in the context, we can clarify certain phenomena occurred when “toiu” is absent from an article. Secondly, through examples, it can be shown that the relationship between anaphoric relation accompanying “toiu” and contextual expansion is based on the fact that anaphoric relation could be viewed as the fundamental theory of contextual expansion. Thirdly, we will regard “toiu” and the preceding noun modifying clause as Topicalized Expression in this research and observe the location of “toiu” in paragraph, ending with the analysis of contextual expansion type of reinterpretation’s four subcategories.
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