A Study of Characteristics and Translation of Existential Sentences in Chinese and English

• 作者: ZHANG Jia-yu ZHANG Li-fang
• 来源期刊: 中美英语教学:英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: EXISTENTIAL SENTENCES in Chinese EXISTENTIAL SENTENCES in English SYNTACTIC CHARACTERISTICS translation
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（2）
• 页码范围: 47-57
• 页数: 11页
• 分类号: H

摘要

The syntactic characteristics of existential sentences (ES) in Chinese and English are systematically discussed. Chinese existential sentences have three major components: A, B, and C, i.e., the locative phrase, the existential verb, and the existential noun phrase. English existential sentences consist of the expletive “there”, existential verb, existential noun or noun phrase and locative phrase. In terms of syntactic characteristics, similarities and dissimilarities coexist. When translating ES in Chinese and English, some important skills are needed, such as replacement of locative phrase, addition or deletion of “there”, adjustment of verbs, and the change of determiners before the existential noun.