The study,using an interlanguage corpus,investigates how international students in China acquire“prepositional phrase-verb”word order.It found that students whose mother tongue features VO and OV word order mostly p...
It is widely known that a finite verb phrase(fVP)of a clause in English consists of three components:tense,aspect and voice.While the two tenses,present and past,and the two voices,active and passive,are recognized an...
There are three probabilities to claim that Mandarin Chinese has multiple Determiner Phrase (DP) structures: (1) Simpson (2001) takes “de” in nominal phrase as the head of the structure: “Zhangsan de shu” ...