A Contrastive Study of English and Chinese Empty Categories - Open Access Library Journal

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A Contrastive Study of English and Chinese Empty Categories ()

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DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1104860 561 Downloads 1,870 Views Citations

Author(s)

Jing Yang

Affiliation(s)

School of Humanities, Tianjin Polytechnic University, Tianjin, China.

ABSTRACT

This thesis makes a comparative study of English and Chinese empty categories on the basis of Government theory, Binding theory and Control theory. The thesis aims at probing into the overall properties of ECs of the two languages as well as digging out the syntactic and semantic representations in English and Chinese ECs. It also has some reference value for second language acquisition.

KEYWORDS

English and Chinese Empty Categories, Government Theory, Binding Theory, Control Theory

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Yang, J. (2018) A Contrastive Study of English and Chinese Empty Categories. Open Access Library Journal, 5, 1-13. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1104860.

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