Communicative dynamish and word order in mandarin chinese  

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Rong, Chen

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 17 no. 2 (1995), page 201-222.
Fulltext: 17_02_Chen.pdf (1.13MB)

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The controversy in categorizing Mandarin Chinese according to Greenberg's word order typology is well known (Greenberg, 1966): Some writers maintain that Chinese exhibits the SOV order, some believe that it is a SVO language, while others hold that it has been undergoing a change from SVO to SOY. This study uses Firbas' theory of Communicative Dynamism (Firbas, 1966a) to analyse the ordering of the subject, the verb, and the object in Mandarin Chinese. It will be demonstrated that the word order of Chinese is not so much determined by syntactic considerations as by information structuring constraints. In other words, Chinese arranges the ordering of major elements according to the amount of CD each element carries: The less CD a sentence element has, the more toward the left of the sentence it will be positioned. This pragmatic constraint is so strong that some aspects of it have been grammaticalized.

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