Study On Chinese -English Unilateral Contrast Of Monovalent Verbs

Since the late 1970s, when Valence Theory was introduced to the study on Modern Chinese, many domestic scholars use this theory to describe and study on Modern Chinese, especially on monovalent verbs and trivalent verbs. However, the study of monovalent verbs was not common. So this paper focuses on Chinese monovalent verbs. And the perspective of study was Chinese–English Unilateral Contrast.By comprehensively utilizing results of Valence Theory, specifically, Deleting Method and Semantic Implication Testing, monovalent verbs in Chinese were identified. Meanwhile, in the practice of judging the number of verb valence, that how to judge the valence of verbs in Ba-Sentences and Bei-Sentences and other questions like this were discussed in the paper. After identifying the monovalent verbs in Chinese, Three Plane Theory was used to describe those verbs.Monovalent verbs in A Dictionary of Modern Chinese(No. 5 version) which have representativeness and universality were taken as the object of study. To compare with the study of predecessors, the monovalent verbs in Chinese were not only verified but also compared with the synonymous verbs in English. Based on the classification of results of translation, the monovalent verbs in Chinese and sentence patterns were studied and were tried to find out some translation rules.To conclude, the monovalent verbs in The Dictionary of Modern Chinese were analyzed systematically in valence and were compared with the synonymous verbs in English, which is meaningful in Chinese to English translation.