悉尼语法和加的夫语法对英语名词词组研究的比较

Comparison of Descriptions of English Nominal Groups Between the Sydney Grammar and the Cardiff Grammar

悉尼语法和加的夫语法都是建立在Halliday系统功能语言学理论基础之上的两种语法模式。在描述和解释具体语言现象时既有联系又有区别。本文具体探讨两种语法模式对英语名词词组描述方面的异同。这两种模式都把名词词组当作重要的一级句法单位,而且描述均采用功能描述。然而,对其内部结构的描述以及相关功能标签的使用等方面,二者之间存在很大差别。从这些区别和联系可以看出两种语法模式既同宗同祖又各有特色。两种语法模式的结合使用对于描述和研究英语名词词组具有重要意义。

Both the Sydney Grammar and the Cardiff Grammar are theoretically based on Halliday＇s Systemic Functional Linguistics, and the two models have both similarities and differences in describing real language phenomena. This research discusses the similarities and the differences of the two models in depicting the nominal group in English. The two models regard the nominal group as a fundamental syntactic unit and agree that the description is functional rather than formal. However, their descriptions of the internal structure of the nominal group differ much, in terms of the functional labels and the way of describing. All these similarities and differemees can demonstrate that the two models have the same theoretical basis and have their own characteristics as well. We think that the combination of the two models in describing the English nominal group will be of great value in practice.