Chinese Liandong(Serial Verb) Constructions from the Perspective of Figure-Ground Relation  

作　　者：刘鹏[1] 

机构地区：[1]北京第二外国语学院

出　　处：《海外英语》2011年第1X期253-254,256,共3页Overseas English

摘　　要：Empty categories,which lack phonological form and hence are not visible in the phonetic representation of the sentence,have both syntactic and semantic properties.Null subjects PRO and pro are base-generated empty categories.This thesis,based on Chomsky's theory about empty categories and research achievements made by Chinese scholars,attempts to analyze the liandong(Serial Verb) construction from Figure and Ground perspective.Empty categories,which lack phonological form and hence are not visible in the phonetic representation of the sentence,have both syntactic and semantic properties.Null subjects PRO and pro are base-generated empty categories.This thesis,based on Chomsky's theory about empty categories and research achievements made by Chinese scholars,attempts to analyze the liandong(Serial Verb) construction from Figure and Ground perspective.

关 键 词：PRO Liandong(Serial) VERB construction FIGURE-GROUND 

分 类 号：H315.9[语言文字—英语]