摘要
In Chomsky's Government and Binding theory, null subject is a kind of Empty Category, namely"pro". Whether subject can be empty constitutes an important parameter of universal grammar, called pro-drop Parameter which is often used to indicate the syntactic difference in human language. According to that, Chomsky divides human language into two categories:pro-drop language and non pro-drop language. The former one allows the loss of the subject, stood for by Italian, Spanish, Chinese, etc. The latter consists of English, French, etc. whose subjects cannot be omitted. Through a comparative study, taking Chinese and English as the examples, this paper aims to disclose the differences between pro-drop language and non pro-drop language.
In Chomsky's Government and Binding theory, null subject is a kind of Empty Category, namely'pro'. Whether subject can be empty constitutes an important parameter of universal grammar, called pro-drop Parameter which is often used to indicate the syntactic difference in human language. According to that, Chomsky divides human language into two categories:pro-drop language and non pro-drop language. The former one allows the loss of the subject, stood for by Italian, Spanish, Chinese, etc. The latter consists of English, French, etc. whose subjects cannot be omitted. Through a comparative study, taking Chinese and English as the examples, this paper aims to disclose the differences between pro-drop language and non pro-drop language.
出处
《海外英语》
2014年第12X期249-250,共2页
Overseas English
