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A Study Of Comparative Sentences In

Posted on:2015-03-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S J ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2175330431468920Subject:Chinese Ethnic Language and Literature
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Comparison is a mutural characteristic of natural language, it is not only animportant content of grammar, but also a necessary mthod of rhetoric, Comparisonsentence is the only way to express comparison and an important term fortypology,especially for the preposition consititutions. In modern linguistics inparticular typology of research, the syntactic representation of comparison sentenceis considered one of the important factors. This paper tries through comparisonbetween the Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman language family and other interaction tofind Tibeto-Burman the sentence grammatical features, as well as a source ofcomparative markers characteristic examine possible performance of the sentencetypology, its more comprehensive description of sexual deepen the study of languagegrammar internal mechanism.Excepting the introduction and the conclusion, thereare four subjects in the paper as follows:The first part discusses the sentence word order type and gives a deepdescription of the specific analysis and comparison. In this part, seven types of wordorder has been discussed. And we also do a detailed description on internal syntaxand language NPCs, on adjective-the positional relationship between the referenceand comparison marker. Comparative marker comes mainly from the premises of theword viz evolution.The second part mainly analysis the internal difference betweenTibeten-Burman languages. The focus is on the differences between them and thefour basic elements of comparison: the object, the relative object, the maker and thecomparative results.Word order in most languages are comparative fexiable. In thecondition of the maker following the relative object, their positions are able to getchanged but the meaning of the sentence will not change.Tibeten-Burman languagesare typical SOV word order. Tibeten-Burman languages have many branches andvaries marker, most of which comes from locative and directive word. Somelanguages were even influenced by Chinese dialect.The third part discusses the difference between Chinese southern dialect and Tibeten-Burman languages. Most of these dialects apply non-marker comparationsentences,and the marker comes from verbs.The fourth part has been discusses the comparasion between European andTibeten-Sino languages. From the perspective of pragmatic, the marker of Tibetenare merely used for comparasion, sometimes for high level sentences.but for Romanand Germanic languages, the marker can also be used for the comparasion ofsimilarity. Besides in some Tibeten-Sino languages, the comparasion sentences aresymmetric and have the concept of weak and strong comparasion,while the later isabout more and less.
Keywords/Search Tags:Tibeto-Burman language, Comparison sentence, typology, themarker
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