基于英语语料库的中国学生和本族语使用者对于存现句使用的研究.pptVIP

Outline Introduction Literature Review Methodology Result and Discussion Conclusion and Limitation Introduction This study focused on comparing the use of the existential sentence between Chinese learners and native speakers, aiming at finding out reasons that result in those difficulties for Chinese students and providing possible solutions to the problem. Literature Review Methodology Results and discussion Conclusion and limitations * * * SUN Jing Zhao Xueai A Corpus-based Analysis on the Use of Existential Sentences between Chinese Students and Native Speakers 基于英语语料库的中国学生和本族语使用者对于存现句使用的研究 Foreign Languages Department of Northwestern Polytechnical University The Existential Sentence is a certain special sentence pattern which bears important difference between Chinese and English. For Chinese students, they may find it is quite confusing when they try to employ the English existential sentence under many conditions. 1. Definition: An Existential sentence is a special sentence pattern which conveys the idea of existence, appearance or disappearance of humans, animals or things (Zhang Zhenbang, 1997). 3. Features: Gu Yang (1997) has generalized the features of the English existential sentence as follows: 1) the verbs in existential sentence are unaccusative. They are different from not only the transitive verbs which can follow Noun phrases (NPs) directly, but also from common intransitive verbs. 2) NPs are to the right of verbs, and they agree with the verbs in both person and quantity. 3) The NPs following the verbs are non-referential. 2. Basic Structure: there + V + NP + (locative Adverbial + Temporal Adverbial)” (Zhang Zhenban, 1992) 4. Previous Studies From generative grammarians: Chomsky : in the generation process of the existential sentence, the first step is to move the NP after the verb; and adding there to the former subject place is the second step. From functional linguists: Halliday: there in the existential sentence is the unmarked them