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Direct linkChan, Alice Y. W. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2004
This paper gives a contrastive analysis of noun phrases in English and Chinese. The syntactic features of the structures, the devices used to mark distinctions in number, case and gender, as well as the similarities and differences between English and Chinese relative clauses are discussed. Partly due to the documented differences between these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nouns, English (Second Language), Chinese
Peer reviewedMiller, Jim – Language Sciences, 1996
Discusses the ways languages of Europe render the "given"-"new" distinction on the basis of data collected by means of presenting speakers of various languages with the task of reconstructing a route on a map. The article raises questions about the nature of "wh"-pronouns in English and about what is shared by these…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis, English
