第7讲 英语汉语对比--形合意合.pptVIP

A Contrastive Study between Chinese and English Hypotaxis vs. parataxis [page31] The most important difference between the two languages lies in parataxis and hypotaxis． Most linguists agree Chinese tends to be a paratactic language, that is, connectives between different parts of the sentence or between clauses are not compulsory. Chinese has no relative words and uses fewer conjunctions than English. English tends to be a hypotactic language, which uses a lot of complex sentence structures and relations between clauses must be expressed by conjunctions or other relative words． Warm-up 1. We