【论英语词序】.pdf
HANGZHOU UNIVERSITY WORD ORDER IN ENGLISH ON TEXTUAL ACCOUNT fa ZhouHsiaokang Subject:EnglishGrammar Instructor:ProfessorRenShaozeng Date:December,1984
Introduction It must be acknowledged that every language has its word-orderinarrangingthemeaningfulelementsasames-Sage for communication.Grammarians,who are interested in language universals,have done well to establi.sh a moderntypologicalclassificationofworldlanguageson the basis of word-order(cf
First of all,traditional grammars give no more than a collectionoflanguagefactsandaclassificationofthe sentence patterns.Lacking in a general theoretical frane- work within which to justify their arguments,they are unable tobring out the nature and underlying principles of word- order.