本文主要从汉语史的角度考察现代汉语常用副词“几乎”的发展过程,认为“几乎”在先秦、中古汉语中还是两个词,发展至宋代,经过句法的重新分析,“几乎”凝固成词,至元明时期趋于成熟。“几乎”作为副词,是在深层语义变化的推动下在表层结构的重新分析中产生并发展起来的。 This paper mainly examines the development process of the commonly used adverbs “almost ” in modern Chinese from the perspective of Chinese history and holds that “almost ” in the Pre - Qin and the Middle Ages is still two words, developed to the Song Dynasty, after syntactic analysis, Almost “solidified into words, to the Yuan and Ming Dynasties tend to mature. ”Almost " as an adverb is generated and re-analyzed in the re-analysis of the surface structure, driven by the deep semantic changes.