The Study On Syntactic And Semantic Of Patient Subject

This paper studies particular linguistic phenomenon—the sentence of patientsubject.According to Case grammar and GB theory,this present research centers onthe patient subject's semantic frame and arrangement of argument structure and thetastructure.Furthermore,this reaearch discusses the relationship between of the sentenceof "bei" and the sentence of patent subject.This paper mainly includes:1.Define the patient subject and determine the range of this thesis.Forexample:"The door opened.""The apple is eaten.".2.Chapter two centers on various semantic frames of patient subject.Theseframes are divided into four types on the basis of differences of proposition'sstructures and the R's semantic indications.3.Chapter three discusses the generative of patient subject.Analyse the relationchanges between argument structure and theta structure.4.Chapter four discusses the relations between the patient subject and "bei"ziconstruction.