A Comparative Study of English and Chinese prepositions 中英介词对比研究.docVIP

2012 届学士学位论文 A Comparative Study of English and Chinese Prepositions 系 别: 外语系 专 业: 英语 指 导 教 师: 指导教师职称: 2012年 5 月12日 A Comparative Study of English and Chinese prepositions Abstract: Both English and modern Chinese are Analytical languages, but they are quite different from each other. As a kind of common part of speech, the role of prepositions in English and Chinese is so special, and many are complicated in use. Preposition is a closed set of part of speech either in Chinese or in English. But in these two languages, there are several controversial or difficult-to -grasp points. In Chinese, the sources of some prepositions are controversial; the degree of some Chinese prepositions’ grammaticalization is not sure; Chinese prepositions often can be omitted while using; Identities of the second part of Chinese circumpositions are also controversial; In Chinese, some prepositions have the same meaning, whether they can swap for each other is restricted by the syllable number of the word after it, whether it is spoken language or written language. Many people who are learning Chinese would be confused while learning or using. As for English prepositions, they are so verbal-like and forced in use that learners in China may make mistakes or be puzzled easily; some certain words like granted are lost their way home; many English prepositions are polysemic, which are also hard to learn and grasp. In the process of my contrastive analysis the prepositions in these two languages, there will be some use corpus to get the frequency of their occurrence, the number of them and the features of their distribution, so that our numbers and conclusions are based on language facts. There will also be quite a few examples from English dictionaries to check or prove them. Key words: preposition, comparative, words sequence