The Comparative Study On Quantitative Phrases Of Modern Chinese And Vietnamese

Numerals and quantifiers in word-class systems of modern Chinese and Vietnamese both are special constituent words. The specialty is that numerals and quantifiers are seldom used alone and they are often used together. The numeral phrases of the modern Chinese and Vietnamese have some common basic characteristics. Numerals and quantifiers are often collocated each other steadily. Besides, the collocation of numerals and quantifiers acts as sentence elements. The thesis is endeavored to make a comparative study on the structure, semantics and syntactic functions of modern Chinese and Vietnamese. Through the study, on one hand, we can understand more clearly the quantitative phrases of Chinese and Vietnamese and their differences and similarities. On the other hand, it has provided a good reference for the Vietnamese to study Chinese and for Chinese to study Vietnamese.The thesis is divided into six parts. The first part is about the structural forms of quantitative phrases of Chinese and Vietnamese. It describes the classification of numerals and quantifiers in modern Chinese and Vietnamese and their differences and similarities of the structural forms of the quantitative phrases. The second part is about the semantic types of the quantitative phrases in Chinese and Vietnamese. It inspects the semantics of the quantitative phrases and the differences and similarities of the corresponding structural forms. The third, fourth and fifth parts are all about the syntactic functions of the quantitative phrases. The quantitative phrases can act as attributive, adverbial, complement, predicate, subject, object and so on. So the usage is very complex. The three parts have described the differences and similarities of the quantitative phrases in acting as various syntactic elements in detail. The sixth part has explored the deviances of Vietnamese students in using Chinese quantitative phrases. It has classified and analyzed the deviances and also found out the causes of the deviances so as to provide some personal suggestions for teaching Chinese quantitative phrases as a foreign language.By far, there are no special theses of comparative study on quantitative phrases of Chinese and Vietnamese. The thesis makes a comparative and systematic study on the phrases, semantics and syntactic functions of the quantitative phrases of Chinese and Vietnamese on the basis of synthesizing the academic materials of the former linguists. It makes clear the differences and similarities of the quantitative phrases of the twolanguages especially some slight differences. At the same time, the author hopes to fill the comparative study vacancy of the quantitative phrases of modern Chinese and Vietnamese to some degree.