Word order and word order change in Mandarin Chinese
汉语词序与词序变化
Timothy Light 黎天睦

Abstract 摘要
In recent years Tai, and Li and Thompson have proposed that the word order of Mandarin Chinese is Subject-Object-Verb (SOV). This essay examines those proposals and instead suggests that Chinese is Subject -Verb-Object (SVO). It is further suggested that from Old Chinese to Modern Chinese there has been no change in the order of Verb and Object, but instead a change in the position of prepositional phrases and in the relation of verbs to nouns and adverbs.

近年来，戴浩一，李讷和桑德拉，汤生诸位先生提出一个理论，认为汉语的词序是主-宾-动（ＳＯＶ）．本文旨在检讨这个理论，并且提出另一个看法．从古汉语发展到现代汉语的过程中，主－动－宾（ＳＶＯ）的词序并没有改变；不过，介词短语的位置与及动词跟名词和副词的关系却有差别。

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