AcknowledgementsIamindebtedtoouruniversityforprovidingmewithsuchapreciousopportunityofwritingthisthesistoconcludemyfouryears’undergraduateeducation.Inthecourseofwriting,IhavegainedmoreacknowledgeandenlightenmentthanIexpected.Iwouldliketoexpressmymostsincereappreciationtomyrespectedsupervisor,Ms.WangXiaoru,anamiableteacher,whopatientlyandpainstakinglyfulfilledthetaskofreadingcritiquing,shapingandpolishingallthepreliminarydraftsofthisthesis.Inaddition,mythanksalsogotomyfamilyaswellastheclassmateswhohaveofferedmehelpandsuggestion.AbstractIntheprocessofEnglishlearning,thedifferencesbetweenEnglishandChinesesyntax,oneofthemajordifficulties,oftenpuzzlesmostChinesestudents,fordifferentpeoplehavedifferentwaysofthoughtwhichleadtodifferenthabitualexpression.ThisdissertationfocusesoncontrastivestudyofsyntaxofEnglishandChinesewiththepurposetoexplorethesimilaritiesandparticularlydissimilaritiesbetweenthesetwounrelatedlanguages.Itishopedthatthroughcontrastivestudy,itwillbeeasierforChinesestudentstogetabettercommandofEnglish.What’smoreimportant,theresultofthecontrastivestudy,whichimprovestheircompetenceandperformance.Acontrastivestudyofdifferentlanguagesnotonlyhelpstoformanewmethod,whichcanbeappliedinlanguageteachingandtranslationbutalsobenefitstheinter-lingualcommunication.Bycontrastivestudy,languagelearnerscangainabetterinsightofpeculiaritiesoftheirmotherlanguageandtheforeignlanguage.ThepaperoffersanintroductiontocontrastivestudyEnglishandChinesesyntax,andcanbedividedintofivechapters.ChapteroneisanintroductiontothecurrentpositionandresultsoftheEnglishandChinesesyntax.ChaptertwopresentsabriefknowledgeoftherelativetheoryoftheEnglishandChinese.Chapterthreeandchapterfourgiveamuchdetailedcontrastandanalysisonsubjectandwordsorder.Intheend,aconclusionreferstolimitationandexpectationoftheEnglishandChinesesyntax.KeyWords:English;Chinese;contrastive;syntax摘要在英语学习过程中，由于语言本身以及中西方思维方式的差异，使中国学生遇到很多困难。在这其中，英汉句法差异是英语学习的重难点之一。本文旨在英语句法的主语、语序进行一个详细的对比，通过对其异同的分析是中国学生对这两种语言有一个清晰的认识，从而提高他们驾驭语言的能力，同时这种对比研究的成果可以在英语教学和翻译上得到广泛应用。通过对两种语言的对比分析情况，人们可以进一步认识外语和母语的特性。在交流时能够区分不同语言各自的表现方法，以顺应这些差异，防止表达失误，避免运用失当，从而达到交流的目的。由于本文旨在讨论中英文句法的差异，因此介绍句法对其主语，语序展开论述，并结合具有说服力的例句加以证明。本文共分为五章。第一章是介绍国内外内英语句法研究现状和结果；第二章是介绍英汉句法的相关理论知识；第三、四章是对通过利用相关理论知识对英语句法的主语、语序进行详细的对比分析；第五章是论文的结论，描写了英汉语句法发展现存的局限性和对语句法发展的期望。关键词：英语；汉语；对比；句法ContrastiveAnalysisBetweenEnglishandChineseSyntax1.IntroductionBothathomeandabroadhasbeenpayingattentiontothecomparativestudyoftheEnglishandChinesesyntax.SuchasChaoYuanren,LiNa,andThompsa,whocomefromoverseas,usethetheoryofthestructuralismorfunctionalismtostudyChinese.What’smore,ChaunceyChuusesthetheoryoftextlinguisticstodiscussthedifferencesbetweenEnglishandChinese.ThedomesticresearchersLianShuneng,YangZijianareengagedinthecontrastivebetweenEnglishandChinesesyntax.Theybelieve“Chinesebelongstoparataxis,whileEnglishishypotaxis”(Deng239).Basedonthesyntactictheory,manylinguistsbelievethat...
