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本文是一篇英语语言学论文，本文首先概括了英汉泄洪句的语言事实，分析了泄洪的财产，并比较了这两种语言中泄洪的形式表达。然后，本文从语义和句法的角度解释了两者的异同。最后，对英语和汉语的泄流句进行了句法推导。

Chapter One Introduction

1.1 Research Scope

This thesis focuses on a special ellipsis structure in English and Chinese, which is called sluicing sentences. Ross (1969) introduced the concept of sluicing based on English corpus. In fact, sluicing is a way to omit components. Although the sluicing sentences only have special interrogative words or special interrogative phrases, they present complete special questions in meaning. 

In example (2), although only the interrogative word weishenme ‘why’ is reserved, the meaning of the sentence is really weishenme wo gen ben jiu bu xiang jiu zhege hua ti zai shuo xia qu ‘why I don't want to go on this topic at all’. Similarly, in example (3), only the interrogative word shenmeshi hou ‘when’ is retained, and the complete semantics expressed in the sluicing sentence is ta yiqian shi shenmeshihou jianguo ta zhezhong youshang de biaoqing de ‘when he had seen that sad look on her face’.

There are commonalities of sluicing sentences between English and Chinese, and the commonalities also forms the basis for the comparison between English and Chinese. However, it remains to be seen whether there are differences behind the commonalities in the two languages and how to explain the differences.

1.2 Literature Review

1.2.1 Relevant Research on English Sluicing Sentences

Ross (1969) first proposed the concept of “sluicing” for English. Subsequent studies on English sluicing are mainly divided into two viewpoints, structural approach and non-structural approach. The former believes that the interrogative words are retained through sluicing, while the latter believes that the interrogative words are generated in situ, that is, the interrogative words only exist as the object of the verb, and there is no ellipsis in the process.

1.2.1.1 Structural Analysis

The structural approach is represented by Ross (1969) and Merchant (2003). Proponents of the structural approach believe that sluicing is a subordinate branch of ellipsis, which is a special form of ellipsis. Taking “somebody just left, guess who.” as an example, it is believed that this sentence should be obtained by deleting “just left” from “somebody just left, guess who just left”, and “who” is left as the wh-remnant component of the special interrogative sentence.
Based on the viewpoint of the structural approach, the research methods of sluicing are mainly divided into Phonetic Form Deletion Approach (PF- Deletion) and Logical Form Copying Approach (LF-Copying). The PF deletion theory assumes that the sentence is a complete expression which includes the deleted part before spell-out. when it is spell-out at the phonetic level, some syntactic components are deleted at the phonetic level, thus we can obtain an ellipsis structure of the phonetic form vacancy. The solution to LF- Copying is to assume that the ellipsis structure has been generated in the explicit syntax stage or the basic part, in other word, when spell-out happened at the semantic interface, it is a sentence containing empty components, and then its expression is reconstructed at the semantic level through the rules of semantic restoratio本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。