This kind of curriculum established the students' subject position and the teachers' leading role, which stressed that we must make full use of the students' original knowledge and experience in our teaching.
Thus, the differences in nominal constructions beyond IP between English and Chinese are not all that complicated as has hitherto been thought of, and can be summarized in the following three aspects:a) In Chinese, an NP beyond IP can carry the nominative Case, because the subject position and the nominative Case can be split in a Chinese sentence.
Thus, the type of specificational copular sentence is conceptualized as involving a predicate in canonical subject position, while the true subject appears after the copula.
This paper,based on a corpus,intends to explore the frequency of finite that-subject complement in academic prose,with its focus on two variables: the varieties of structures in subject position and the varieties and frequency of the nouns in subject position.
For Grimshaw (1990), ES psychverb has the Experiencer mapped onto the subject position because the Experiencer argument is maximally prominent on both thematic and aspectual tiers.
English middle construction is a unique language phenomenon in that the subject position is occupied by the theme although the verb is in the active form.
More specifically, pronouns are used to refer to given, salient entities in the discourse (topics); and NPs with such referents are generally encoded in subject position.
Particular attention is given to questions surrounding the gender of theory: what genders are more heralded in the theoretical spotlights and how the subject position of doing theory is gendered.
The attribution of words or deeds to newsmakers by journalists is a most sensitive issue in news media,espeCially in the West. In his study on news discourse as mediated action, Ron Scollon (1998) demonstratesclearly that journalists of print and broadcast media alike are socially POsitioned to delegate responsibility, or'Principalship' (Goffman 1981), to a newsmaker or some ambiguous source. Any form of delegahon ofPrincipalship in news stories, or attribution in brief, is primarily motivated by jour...
English middles and ergatives are in contrast in that the former is used in generic statements and the latter describes events. However, there have been disputes over whether middles are lexically generated in the lexicon. Stroik's analysis, among others, offers the best explanation. He claims that middle constructions are derived syntactically and the middle verb projects an argument grid with both external θ-role and internalθ-role; that the external argument, according to the Principle of Argument Demoti...
The present paper attempts to model the analysis of both Chinese and English existential sentences (ESs) on the pattern of Chomsky抯 generative linguistic theory. Given that the predicate verb in the ES is unaccusative in nature, the explanation of the Case assignment of the postverbal NP, the sole argument in the sentence, perplexes generative grammarians greatly. In the literature, it is claimed that the unaccusative verb, though incapable of assigning objective or accusative Case to its complement, is ab...