书面语语法及教学的相对独立性

An Independent Grammar for Written Chinese in Second Language Teaching

本文旨在提出现代汉语书面语语法的独立性:它既区别于文言,也不同于口语,而是一种相对独立的语法体系。本文不拟也不可能穷尽这一体系的全部内容,然而,如果文中所发掘的现象属实、所提出的分析合理的话,那么,无论书面语的研究还是书面语的教学(第一及第二语言)都应具有相对于口语和文言的独立性。

It has been commonly observed that people who study Chinese as a foreign language have poor professional business writing skills, though they show great improvement in reading, listening and speaking after years of studying in China. An important reason for the poor professional writing skills is due to the fact that, as proposed in this paper, the written language has an independent grammar from the spoken language in modern Chinese. Some phrasal structures and syntactic operations, if formed by grammar of written Chinese, cannot be used in oral speech. The paper also shows that morph-syntactic operations of the written grammar are different from those of the spoken grammar. As a result, the grammar of written Chinese must be considered an independent system from both the modern spoken Chinese and the classical literary Chinese. Finally, if this hypothesis is proven true, the curriculum of teaching Chinese language and the theory of modern Chinese grammar should all be reconsidered.