Research On Chinese Complement In English

Complement is one of the important characteristics in Chinese syntax. It both reflected the flexibility and terseness characteristic of Chinese. At the same time, it is also a key point and difficulty in the Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language. Complement in Chinese can be divided into eight sub-categories on basis of form and meaning features,namely:Result Complement , Degree Complement , Direction Complement , Possibility Complement , Modal Complement ,Time Complement , Location Complement , Quantity Complement.There is no equivalent component in English.How is the Complement in Chinese presented in English? What are the rules and reasons? From the angle of contents, first, this thesis carried on the summary of Chinese Complement. Second, the thesis is about the description and detailed analysis of eight sub-categories Chinese Complement in English.Finally, this thesis tried to research the reasons of the rules and point out the value of this study.Most of Complement in Chinese are tranformed as Adverbial Modifier or Predicate in English by reason of the characters of English grammar, or fused in Predicate. Few of Complement in Chinese are individually tranformed as other ingredient, which are not representative. Degree Complement, Time Complement, Location Complement and Quantity Complement are tranformed as Adverbial Modifier in English; Result Complement, the transformation of Direction Complement, Possibility Complement and Modal Complement are relatively complex, but most of them are transformed as Adverbial Modifier or Predicate, which are closely related to the characters of English,its grammar and culture.