A Correlative Interpretation Of Chinese Sentence With Two Pre-Verbal NPs

This article tries to explain the problems about Chinese sentences with two Pre-Verbal NPs that proposes by Chenping(2004). We propose that compared with Ancient Chinese, Modern Chinese has the feature of "the head is closer to the end", which make Chinese form two kinds of two Pre-Verbal NPs sentence. This feature directly induces Modern Chinese to use the information focus position to express focus at large. The backing of lots focus is correlated with the function of information structure. So Modern Chinese form syntax structure A and structure B, which is systemic opposing. A is dominant to B. Structure B is limited by two aspects which are not operate to structure A. The first is the limit to the contrast of NP2. The second is that in the two noun components of structure B, only the NP which agentive feature is weak can appear in the position of NP1, and NP1 is the syntactic topic. Then we interpret the form of the two limits. The form of NP2's contrast of structure B is decided by its special position and the cause of fronting. The NP1 of structure B can not take universally referring components, because after universal NP1 receive syntactic emphasize, NP2 also tends to form contrast emphasis. But the two kinds of emphasis can not realize in the same syntax circumstance. Then we interpret it deeply in the point of dominant orders.