A Study of Comparative Sentences in Thirty Kinds of Miscellaneous Dramas of Yuan Dynasty

The syntactic patterns of comparative sentences in Thirty Kinds of Miscellaneous Dramas of Yuan Dynasty mainly include “X compares Y” and “X compares Y and W”. Such comparative sentences mainly express the equal comparison and contrast. In this work, the auxiliary word “bi” (compare) has not become a preposition and it is in the transition from a verb to a preposition. So it is bound and independent as well. And it has its transitional feature.