正题名：Range characteristics of material clauses in Mandarin Chinese

作    者：杨国文

刊    物：Jonathan Webster and Peng Xuanwei (eds.) Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics: The State of the Art in China Today. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Pp139-150. 

 

提    要：This article describes the characteristics of Range in material clauses in Mandarin Chinese by comparing its grammatical behaviour with that of Goal and its counterpart in English. Due to the lexical and grammatical differences between English and Chinese, circumstantial elements that may be realized by prepositional phrases in English are more likely to be realized by nouns or nominal groups in Chinese, functioning as the elements of Range. Compared with Goal, Range is much less likely to move around in clauses and shows a lower possibility of entering some special grammatical constructions.

本文根据系统功能语言理论，考察了汉语物质过程中范围成分和目标成分的不同属性，强调说明范围成分的语法特点，并比较了汉语和英语之间相应的差别。范围成分的语法特征在物质过程中表现得最为明显。除了在词汇类型和与前后成分的关系上的要求以外，范围成分在进入汉语特殊语法句式方面受到更多的限制。

关键词：range；goal；  material clauses ； circumstantial elements

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