＂Cong lai（从来）＂and＂Li lai（历来）＂have something in common—connotative full scale and relative location in semantic features and contrastive function in pragmatic values. They can be distinguished by the two discontinuous constructions of＂conglai（从来） ＋meiyou（没有） ＋zheyang（这样） ＋X＂and＂lilai（历来） ＋zui（最） ＋X＂. Furthermore, they are complementary in the selection of styles, affirmative, negative, and compound sentences. All these differences originate in their different pragmatic values,the former being subjective ...
