| This thesis investigates existential clauses in modern Chinese from a functional perspective,employing Systemic Functional Linguistics(SFL)as the theoretical framework.The main research questions are:(1)How to analyze the semantic configurations and syntax of modern Chinese existential clauses from a systemic functional linguistic perspective?(2)What is the essential difference between Chinese,English,and Turkish as reflected in modern Chinese existential clauses and their English and Turkish translations?The data for this study consists of examples of existential clauses extracted from various sources,including existing literature and corpus data.The study adopts a functional approach to analyze the semantic configurations and syntax of existential clauses in modern Chinese.It also conducts a contrastive analysis of existential clauses in modern Chinese and their English and Turkish translations to explore how existential clauses in Chinese,English,and Turkish reflect different cultural and philosophical perspectives on subject-obj ect relations.The study reveals that Chinese existential clauses express a monistic,intuitionistic,collectivistic,and relational view of reality,where the subject and the object are holistically interconnected;English existential clauses convey a dualistic,rationalistic,individualistic,and essentialistic view of reality,where the subject and the object are individually separate and distinct;and Turkish existential clauses manifest a hybrid view of reality,where both holistic and individualistic aspects are present.The findings suggest that existential clauses have distinctive characteristics that reflect the typological nature and philosophy of the language and its culture.The study contributes to the understanding of existential clauses as a linguistic phenomenon and provides implications for future research on cross-linguistic communication,language teaching,and translation practice. |
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