英汉小句状语成分分布对比研究

A Contrastive Study of the Distribution of Adjuncts in English and Chinese Clauses

本文从功能视角对英汉小句状语成分的分布进行对比研究,目的是对英汉状语在句法分布中的差异进行阐释。研究发现,人际状语和语篇状语在英汉小句中的分布差异不大,而经验状语和逻辑状语的分布差异较大。这种差异反映了两种语言不同的语序特点;语序上的不同源于中西方民族不同的认知凸显方式;认知上的不同体现了中西方民族思维上是重理性还是重悟性的特点;思维上的不同最终归于中西方文化及孕育环境之间的差异。

This article makes a contrastive study of the distribution of Adjuncts in English and Chinese clauses from a functional perspective,aiming to reveal syntactic distributive particularities of the two languages and to provide relevant explanations.The results show that there are few differences between the distribution of English and Chinese interpersonal and discoursal Adjuncts while there are significant ones between the distribution of English and Chinese experiential and logical Adjuncts.These particularities are due to the different characteristics of English and Chinese in terms of word order,to the different ways of cognitive prominence between Chinese and Western nationalities,to the different modes of thinking,i.e.attaching importance to rationality or to intuition,and to the differences between Chinese and Western cultures and their breeding environments,in turn.