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Syntactic Functions Of "V Dao NP, V Zai NP": A Chinese-Korean Contrastive Analysis And Theoretical Applications

Posted on:2009-07-12Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:E H LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360272463074Subject:Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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Contemporary Chinese (Mandarin) has unique complement structures, which are quite different from Korean, or any other language. Most of the Chinese complement structures are translated into adverbs in Korean, but the corresponding rules are not consistent across counterpart structures. Such failure in generalization of the matching patterns causes Korean learners to have difficulty in learning the Chinese complement constructions. The main purpose of this dissertation is to seek the correspondences between the Chinese complement structures of"V+dao+NP"and"V+zai+NP"and the Korean counterparts. Another purpose is to suggest an optimal learning model for these structures, through analyzing errors found in Korean-learning Chinese students and Chinese-learning Korean students.Types of"dao+NP"and"zai+NP"in Chinese complement structures can not only play a role of adverbials in pre-verbal position, but also play a role of complements in post-verbal position. However, these two Chinese complement structures are translated as adverbials in Korean, regardless of their positions. There is one syntactic function, Adverbial, in Korean corresponding to two syntactic functions, Adverbial and Complement, in Chinese, when translated from one language to the other one. This causes Korean learners to have great difficulty in choosing proper Chinese sentence structures. Interference effects from the Korean mother language also contributes to most Korean learners'persistent tendency of taking"zai/dao + NP"for Adverbial function. The results from the experiments in this study show that this kind of error is consistent through the entire course in learning, from the basic phase to the advanced phase. These errors constitute such a stumbling block for Korean learners of Chinese that these Chinese complement structures need more attention and academic interest in order to better teach Chinese to Korean learners. To meet such needs, this research has been conducted and centered around the following three objectives:The first objective is to investigate the syntactic and semantic characteristics of"V+dao+NP, V+zai+NP"in Contemporary Chinese.The second objective is to study the Korean counterparts of"V+dao+NP"and"V+zai+NP"and to search for the correspondences between the two languages for these structures, and to establish an initial theoretical model in order to support them.The third objective is to construct an open-style questionnaire based on the Chinese-Korean correspondences in order to conduct experiments with a group of Korean students learning Chinese and with a group of Chinese students learning Korean. The goal of such experiments is to make generalizations about the patterns of errors and to propose an optimal teaching-learning model.The results of the study reveal that types of verbs, semantic characteristics of"V+dao+NP, V+zai+NP,"syntactic features of"V+dao+NP, V+zai+NP,"(e.g. co-occurrence with BA constructions or aspectual markers of le-1, le-2), and the corresponding patterns of translation play a part in meaningful correlation between a percentage of correct answers and standard deviations, intrinsically or extrinsically in each experiment group. The results support the view that these factors exert consistent influence on Koreans'learning of the Chinese complement structures of"V+dao+NP, V+zai+NP."This research enables us to make predictions about learning stages for Korean students acquiring knowledge of Chinese resultative complement structures and to provide level-wise teaching plans and learning strategies for each different level of learner. In addition, this study can work as a reference to provide an optimal teaching-learning model for Chinese or Korean teachers.
Keywords/Search Tags:complements, resultative complements, V+dao+NP, V+zai+NP, dao+NP+V, zai+NP+V, copula, dao, zai, error analysis, contrastive analysis, -ey/eyseo, -(eu)lo, -kkachi, second language acquisition
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