中英祈使句句法语义对比研究
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毕业论文外文摘要
Title Comparative Study on Syntax and Semantics of Chinese and English Imperative Sentences
Abstract
Whether in English or in Chinese, imperative sentence has distinct characteristics and it is also one of the most indispensable sentence patterns in Chinese and English languages. This study intends to get further understanding of imperative sentence in English and Chinese languages on basis of the knowledge of syntax and semantics. After collecting the corpus of the novels, the subject of imperative sentences are analyzed, imperative sentences in both Chinese and English with distinct negative words are compared. Also, the moods of imperative sentences are illustrated.
Study found that the classifications of the subject of English imperative sentences are more distinct. Also, negative words in both languages have something in common and the modal particles in Chinese imperative sentences make their semantics more various.
Keywords imperative sentence subject semantics syntax
Table of Contents
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Research Background 1
1.2 Significance of the Study 1
1.3 Organization.................... 1
2 Literature Review 3
2.1 Previous Studies on Imperative Sentences 3
2.2 Summary 4
3 Methodology 5
3.1 Research Questions 5
3.2 Material 5
3.3 Analysis 5
4 Discussion and Results 7
4.1 Comparison of the Subject of Imperative Sentence 7
4.1 Comparison of the Negative words of Imperative Sentence 10
4.3 Expressive mood of Imperative Sentences 12
Conclusion 15
Acknowledgements 17
References 18
1 Introduction
1.1 Research Background
There are four kinds of sentences in English-Chinese language: declarative sentences, interrogative sentences, exclamatory sentences and imperative sentences. Among them, imperative sentence is a kind of directive sentence which the speaker asks the listener to do something or not do something, or the speaker invites the listener to do something or not to do something with him/her. Imperative sentence is a kind of essential sentence pattern both in English and Chinese and its subject can be omitted in most cases. The most important feature of English imperative sentences is that their verbs do not change and use the the root form of verbs. And there will be no person and changes of tense. Therefore, imperative sentences do have their own characteristics that differ from other sentences.
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