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Revision as of 04:29, 27 July 2011
语序
Sub-pages and possible titles
- SVO word order
- Time, manner place word order
- Preposition placement
- Adverbial placement
- Complement placement
- [[]]
Potential content
- Basic order: topic + subject + predicate
- SVO language, but unusually has modifiers preceding the modified
- e.g. 那两个喝醉的人打起来了。
- In many cases uses many postpositions rather than prepositions
- SVO language, but unusually has modifiers preceding the modified
- English vs Mandarin word order
- English: Who, What, Where, When
- Mandarin: Who, When, Where, What
- Mandarin biggest to smallest units sequence
- In-situ question words
- Topic-comment structure
- Topic and subject can sometimes be omitted
- Time, manner place (TMP) adverb sequence
- More detailed word order:
- Subject, verb, direct object
- Subject, verb, indirect object, direct object
- Subject, prepositional phrase, verb, direct object
- Subject, location phrase, verb phrase
- Subject, time, manner, place, predicate
Sources and further reading
- Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar: A Practical Guide (pp. 17 - 22)
- 中文语法快易通:句型结构1 (pp. 1 - 27) (needs Amazon code)
- Basic Patterns of Chinese Grammar (pp. 19 - 23)
- Wikipedia: Chinese grammar
