Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Research Background
Although there have been various corpus-based studies on the acquisition ofDCs by Chinese learners at home, most of them focus on the use of this constructionby non-English majors and simply make brief discussion about their results in termsof knowledge of SLA. There thus leaves a space for the present study. This
thesisfocuses on Chinese English majors’ use of DCs, and interprets its result from theperspective of CG. Moreover, it can provide specific suggestions for practicalteaching and learning of English grammar. To take an example, numerous examplesof this construction that Chinese learners encounter in their learning can be classified,which helps to ease the burden of teaching and learning greatly. In addition, this studyalso helps to demonstrate the explanatory power of CG to the traditional grammarknowledge, by which a complement to the traditional teaching is provided.
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1.3 Research Methodology
Since this thesis aims to analyze the features of the use of DCs in ChineseEnglish majors’ English writing, so a certain quantity of ditransitive sentences need tobe retrieved and analyzed. The data of this study is collected from the two sub-corpora (ST5 and ST6) of CLEC because of its authority and the
Reference corpusLOCNESS because of its identical genre to the former and of its availability toChinese language researchers.By qualitatively analyzing all concordance lines of specified 85 verbs in the twosub-corpora (ST5 and ST6) of CLEC and LOCNESS, ditransitive expressions arecollected. And then the number of ditransitive expressions, verb type and the type andfrequency of arguments are quantitatively calculated. The following analysis of theuse of these ditransitive sentences, including the distribution of construction senses,verb type and the choice of arguments and the explanation to the result are carried outin a qualitative way.
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Chapter Two Literature Review
This chapter will firstly review various linguistic studies of DCs, includingstudies from traditional approaches, namely the structural and transformational-generative approaches, and those from the cognitive approach. And then previousstudies concerning the use of DCs by Chinese English learners will be reviewed
2.1 Traditional Linguistic Approaches to Ditransitive Construction
DC has been studied by researchers of different linguistic schools, and theirdifferent opinions on this construction fundamentally lie in their differentphilosophical foundations. Previous linguistic schools treat language itself as asystem existing independently of physical world and study the operation mechanismof language system, regardless of the inter-relation between language and humancognition. Traditionally, previous studies on DCs are conducted from such aspects asstructure, ditransitive verb, generation and function.The following section reviewstwo main traditional linguistic approaches to DCs.
2.1.1 The Structural Approach to Ditransitive Construction
Structuralism emphasizes the order of linguistic units. Structural linguistsconsider linguistic units as interrelated with each other in a system, not as isolatedbits, and they hold that a clause is formed by individual words in a linear sequenceand has a hierarchical structure (Hu Zhuanglin, 2001). For instance, the sentence Theboy ate the apple is
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