New Definition and Classification of Chinese Prepositions from the Perspective of English Structural Transformation Grammar

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10.2991/ssehr-17.2018.115How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Prepositions, Structural transformation grammar, Definition, Prepositions classification, Word-mediated predicate.

Abstract

Since the publication of Ma Shi Wen Tong, Chinese preposition research has achieved a great success. However, the definition of prepositions, especially their differences from verbs and conjunctions, has varied from one genre to another, leading inconvenience to many Chinese learners. This paper redefines and classifies the prepositions according to the structure transformation grammar, and newly divides a kind of word-mediated predicate to solve the problem of the definition of the prepositions and the difference between the prepositions and the verbs and conjunctions for a long time after the controversy in the syntactic circles.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social Science, Education and Humanities Research (SSEHR 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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