A Contrastive Study on Relativization Strategies of English and Chinese:Based on the NPAH Theory

• 作者: 王娜
• 来源期刊: 海外英语
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: CONTRASTIVE study RELATIVIZATION STRATEGY NPAH
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（2）
• 页码范围: 98-100
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: H0

摘要

Relativization is a common feature shared by almost every language,which also needs to be analyzed from the contrastive perspective.Considering about the NPAH theory,two questions has been solved here:what are the similarities and differences between English and Chinese selativization strategies;whether the data gained from analyzing the corpus could support the NPAH theory.By analyzing the corpus,2 points has been found:1)Relative-pronoun strategy is the most frequently used strategy in English,in spite of Chinese RC has no relative-pronoun strategy.2)The accessibility for English RC with+case strategy starts from IO,but Chinese starts from DO.Generally,both English and Chinese relative clause can support the accessibility hierarchy of the NPAH.