“很多”与“很少”是具有相同语法性质的粘合性短语,然而,它们的语法功能却并不完全对称。二者虽然都可以作谓语和动词的补语,但在定语、状语和形容词补语的句法位置上,却呈现出明显的对立分布态势。究其原因,它们的语法功能并不完全取决于其语法性质,而同时要受到它们在句法结构中所蕴含的“不完全肯定”与“不完全否定”范畴意义的制约。 “Much” and “Few” are adhesive phrases of the same grammatical nature, however, their grammatical functions are not completely symmetrical. Although both of them can be complement of predicate and verb, their syntactic position of attributive adverbial adverbial adverb shows obvious opposite distribution. The reason for this is that their grammatical functions are not entirely dependent on their grammatical nature, but at the same time they are subject to the categories of “imperfect affirmation” and “imperfect negation” contained in the syntactic structure.