Word Order, Transformation, and Communicative Function in Mandarin Chinese |
Common terms and phrases
agent agentive noun anaphoric aspect markers BA construction BA transformation basic distribution Chafe Chao chỉ Chomsky cleft communicative function context conveying new information dative deep structure definite degree of CD deleted discourse distribution of CD door example existential sentence factitive factitive noun Firbas focal element focused FSP means FSP structure grammatical grannar Halliday indefinite noun information focus intermediate structure intonation center John lái linguists MANDARIN CHINESE na-ge ná-zou-le ni-de non-focal noun phrase occur old information patient preposed prepositions process verbs read-finish-ASP referential markers rén rheme rhene rule sẽ semantic semantic structure sentence elements sentence stress sentence-adjunct sentence-final position sentence-initial position shuo speaker subject-postposing surface structure syntactic take-away-ASP tamen teaches classics tence Teng that-M thematic theme-preposing thene theory this-M tion topic từ unmarked order usually vào verbal complex Wang Kang Wang Lian word order xihuan Zhang San