The Grammatical Features of Translational Chinese

  • Richard Xiao
  • Xianyao Hu
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Part of the New Frontiers in Translation Studies book series (NFTS)

Abstract

Having provided meticulous descriptions of the lexical properties of translational Chinese, we will now look further into the grammatical features of translational Chinese by investigating and comparing a wide range of linguistic features in translated and native Chinese corpora. Many of these features are unique syntactical constructions and grammatical structures of Chinese such as the 被bei passive construction (7.1), the disposal把 ba construction (7.2), the existential 有 you sentence (7.3), the copula是 shi (7.4), the所 suo construction (7.5) and the 连 lian construction (7.6) as well as grammatical categories such as classifiers (7.7), aspect markers (7.8), structural auxiliaries (7.9) and modal particles (7.10).

Keywords

Relative Clause Modal Particle Source Language Chinese Text Passive Marker 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Richard Xiao
    • 1
  • Xianyao Hu
    • 2
  1. 1.Linguistics and English LanguageLancaster UniversityLancasterUK
  2. 2.College of International StudiesSouthwest UniversityChongqingChina

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