My investigation will serve two purposes. First, I shall investigate the function of the subclauses in the corpus in relation to their complexity, and I shall establish whether there is a correlation between sentence ...My investigation will serve two purposes. First, I shall investigate the function of the subclauses in the corpus in relation to their complexity, and I shall establish whether there is a correlation between sentence length and sentence complexity.Second, I shall analyse the complexity of the subclauses collected from the two sections and compare the results from these sections, focusing on finite subclauses and non-finite subclauses. I hope to be able to point out some differences in style between the news and sports sections concerning the use of subordinate clauses in various syntactic functions in order to examine how the choice of linguistic structures differs in different sections of The Times.展开更多
Long and complex English sentences, just as the name implies, are long sentences with complicated structures. The most typical features of this kind of sentences are the comprehensive use of different subordinate clau...Long and complex English sentences, just as the name implies, are long sentences with complicated structures. The most typical features of this kind of sentences are the comprehensive use of different subordinate clauses and the flexible use of all kinds of prepositional phrases and participle phrases, which lead to complex sentence structures and varied constituent relationships, and bring great difficulties to English-Chinese translation practice. The paper concludes that, in the translation of long and complex English sentences, the translator should first figure out the logic relationship of the original text, and then, according to the Chinese expression customs, make a flexible use of various translation methods and techniques, and finally he can get a faithful and smooth translated text.展开更多
Theories of Chinese complex sentences and sentence groups refer to the research of complex sentences and sentence groups in modern Chinese. The SDRTrefers to a dynamic semantic theory of discourse interpretation propo...Theories of Chinese complex sentences and sentence groups refer to the research of complex sentences and sentence groups in modern Chinese. The SDRTrefers to a dynamic semantic theory of discourse interpretation proposed in 1990s by Asher.Through contrastive studies on theories of Chinese complex sentences,sentence groups and the SDRT,we find that they have much in common.展开更多
Based on the paraphrasing of Chinese simple sentences,the complex sentence paraphrasing by using templates are studied.Through the classification of complex sentences,syntactic analysis and structural anal...Based on the paraphrasing of Chinese simple sentences,the complex sentence paraphrasing by using templates are studied.Through the classification of complex sentences,syntactic analysis and structural analysis,the proposed methods construct complex sentence paraphrasing templates that the associated words are as the core.The part of speech tagging is used in the calculation of the similarity between the paraphrasing sentences and the paraphrasing template.The joint complex sentence can be divided into parallel relationship,sequence relationship,selection relationship,progressive relationship,and interpretive relationship’s complex sentences.The subordinate complex sentence can be divided into transition relationship,conditional relationship,hypothesis relationship,causal relationship and objective relationship’s complex sentences.Joint complex sentence and subordinate complex sentence are divided to associated words.By using pretreated sentences,the preliminary experiment is carried out to decide the threshold between the paraphrasing sentence and the template.A small scale paraphrase experiment shows the method is availability,acquire the coverage rate of paraphrasing template 40.20%and the paraphrase correct rate 62.61%.展开更多
In my paper, I compare the characteristics of English long sentences and Chinese long sentences, and I also talk about how to translate long sentences. There are at least two or three modifiers involving no less than ...In my paper, I compare the characteristics of English long sentences and Chinese long sentences, and I also talk about how to translate long sentences. There are at least two or three modifiers involving no less than one subordinate clause in an English long complex sentence. There are at least twenty words and three or four comparatively independent phrases that are connected together by meaning in a Chinese sentence. The differences between them are the rules of making sentences and the structure. In my paper I also talk about how to translate long sentences, and here are the rules: a) break the formal structure; b) reorganize every part according to the habits of the receptor language. If we can master the rules, we can translate the English and Chinese long sentences better.展开更多
文摘My investigation will serve two purposes. First, I shall investigate the function of the subclauses in the corpus in relation to their complexity, and I shall establish whether there is a correlation between sentence length and sentence complexity.Second, I shall analyse the complexity of the subclauses collected from the two sections and compare the results from these sections, focusing on finite subclauses and non-finite subclauses. I hope to be able to point out some differences in style between the news and sports sections concerning the use of subordinate clauses in various syntactic functions in order to examine how the choice of linguistic structures differs in different sections of The Times.
文摘Long and complex English sentences, just as the name implies, are long sentences with complicated structures. The most typical features of this kind of sentences are the comprehensive use of different subordinate clauses and the flexible use of all kinds of prepositional phrases and participle phrases, which lead to complex sentence structures and varied constituent relationships, and bring great difficulties to English-Chinese translation practice. The paper concludes that, in the translation of long and complex English sentences, the translator should first figure out the logic relationship of the original text, and then, according to the Chinese expression customs, make a flexible use of various translation methods and techniques, and finally he can get a faithful and smooth translated text.
基金one of the achievements of the 12th Five-year Plan Project of social science of Jiangxi Province--The SDRT Research(No.11ZX20)
文摘Theories of Chinese complex sentences and sentence groups refer to the research of complex sentences and sentence groups in modern Chinese. The SDRTrefers to a dynamic semantic theory of discourse interpretation proposed in 1990s by Asher.Through contrastive studies on theories of Chinese complex sentences,sentence groups and the SDRT,we find that they have much in common.
文摘Based on the paraphrasing of Chinese simple sentences,the complex sentence paraphrasing by using templates are studied.Through the classification of complex sentences,syntactic analysis and structural analysis,the proposed methods construct complex sentence paraphrasing templates that the associated words are as the core.The part of speech tagging is used in the calculation of the similarity between the paraphrasing sentences and the paraphrasing template.The joint complex sentence can be divided into parallel relationship,sequence relationship,selection relationship,progressive relationship,and interpretive relationship’s complex sentences.The subordinate complex sentence can be divided into transition relationship,conditional relationship,hypothesis relationship,causal relationship and objective relationship’s complex sentences.Joint complex sentence and subordinate complex sentence are divided to associated words.By using pretreated sentences,the preliminary experiment is carried out to decide the threshold between the paraphrasing sentence and the template.A small scale paraphrase experiment shows the method is availability,acquire the coverage rate of paraphrasing template 40.20%and the paraphrase correct rate 62.61%.
文摘In my paper, I compare the characteristics of English long sentences and Chinese long sentences, and I also talk about how to translate long sentences. There are at least two or three modifiers involving no less than one subordinate clause in an English long complex sentence. There are at least twenty words and three or four comparatively independent phrases that are connected together by meaning in a Chinese sentence. The differences between them are the rules of making sentences and the structure. In my paper I also talk about how to translate long sentences, and here are the rules: a) break the formal structure; b) reorganize every part according to the habits of the receptor language. If we can master the rules, we can translate the English and Chinese long sentences better.