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題名 Is the correlation between grounding and transitivity universal?
作者 徐嘉慧
Chui, Kawai
Kawai Chui
日期 2003
上傳時間 21-Sep-2009 11:46:41 (UTC+8)
摘要 This paper studies the correlation between grounding and transitivity in Chinese narratives and conversations based on the ten Transitivity features proposed by Hopper and Thompson (1980), to examine the universality of the correlation across different spoken discourse and different languages. According to the percentages of high-transitivity features vis-à-vis grounding, highly transitive clauses in Chinese narratives, just like English written narratives, tend to be foregrounded. However, such correlation is not borne out in conversational discourse, in that highly transitive clauses are almost equally distributed in foreground and background. As conversations are more pervasive and reflect people`s habitual use of language, it is concluded that grounding is independent of the morphosyntactic and semantic manifestations of transitivity.
關聯 Studies in Language,27(2),221-244
資料類型 article
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.27.2.02chu
dc.creator (作者) 徐嘉慧zh_TW
dc.creator (作者) Chui, Kawai-
dc.creator (作者) Kawai Chui-
dc.date (日期) 2003-
dc.date.accessioned 21-Sep-2009 11:46:41 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 21-Sep-2009 11:46:41 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 21-Sep-2009 11:46:41 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) https://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/37723-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) This paper studies the correlation between grounding and transitivity in Chinese narratives and conversations based on the ten Transitivity features proposed by Hopper and Thompson (1980), to examine the universality of the correlation across different spoken discourse and different languages. According to the percentages of high-transitivity features vis-à-vis grounding, highly transitive clauses in Chinese narratives, just like English written narratives, tend to be foregrounded. However, such correlation is not borne out in conversational discourse, in that highly transitive clauses are almost equally distributed in foreground and background. As conversations are more pervasive and reflect people`s habitual use of language, it is concluded that grounding is independent of the morphosyntactic and semantic manifestations of transitivity.en
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dc.relation (關聯) Studies in Language,27(2),221-244en
dc.title (題名) Is the correlation between grounding and transitivity universal?en
dc.type (資料類型) articleen
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1075/sl.27.2.02chuen_US
dc.doi.uri (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.27.2.02chuen_US