Contrastive Analysis of the Middle Construction

The English Middle Construction (EMC), as a piculiar syntactic structure, shares its semantic features, but diversifies in its syntactic configuration compared with other languages. This paper tries to have a contrast study of the Middle Construcitons between English and Chinese and find the two languages share the same semantic features that the incompatibility between the semantic quantitatives (SQs) of the Adverb (Adjunct in the syntactic term) and the SQs of the Verb denoted by the predicate of MC leads to the deactivization of the predicate by means of the Adjunct, functioning as a quantitative device, assign delimitation to the predicate, hence ensures the grammaticality of the construction. But syntatically, we agree that the NP Movement Approach accounts for the formation of EMC, while we argue in Chinese it is the verb raising that results in the MC. This paper first represents the structural representation of the English Middle Construction; then the structural analysis is elaborated in comparison with that in Chinese, based on the previous studies; and finally the motivations of the Ecs in the perspective of syntactic and semantic functions are explored and hence a new hypothesis is raised to probe the similar construction in Chinese.

学术不端检测的难点及对策

【目的】为遏制学术不端提供强大的技术支持和有效参考。【方法】分析学术不端检测现状及模式,提出学术不端检测中出现的难点问题,从技术、使用规范以及制度等角度提出解决方案。【结果】大面积改写以降低文字重复比例、将文字内容转成图片以规避检测、"Google翻译方法"规避检测、论文代写及买卖是学术检测中遇到的难点,针对这些难点,同方知网将学术不端检测技术进行升级和改造,有效提升了该系统的学术不端行为检测能力。【结论】学术不端检测工具可为科技期刊遏制学术不端提供有力的技术支持与保障。