A Study Of The Order Of Multi-Adverbial Before Predicate In Chinese Of Foreign Students From Asia And Africa

As the modifiers of the predicate, adverbial plays an important part in enriching the information of a sentence.Linearity is one of the natures of language. The encoding, passing and decoding of language are all in liner order. Order, as a grammatical device, is of greater importance in Chinese, which is a language lack of morphological derivation. Therefore, word order is a curial part to learn for those whose mother tongue is not Chinese.In the teaching practice, I find that learners have many problems in the command of word order of Chinese, especially the order of co-occurred multi-adverbial. So the research of the acquisition of multi-adverbial of foreign learners and that of the elements which restrict the order of the multi-adverbial will be of great significance to the teaching practice of Chinese as a foreign language.Based on the previous researches, the present paper carries on the research from two new perspectives:Firstly, the study is from the perspective of the foreign learners'...