Contrastive corpus linguistic studies of English and Chinese: The cases of passive constructions and classifiers
英汉对比语料库研究:以被动结构与量词为例
Richard Xiao 肖忠华
Abstract 摘要
"The corpus-based approach is inherently comparative in nature. The marriage between corpora and contrastive analysis produces a synergy that greatly benefits both areas of research. This paper introduces a new model of Contrastive Corpus Linguistics which provides a common research platform for areas including corpus linguistics, contrastive linguistics, translation studies and second language acquisition research. In the paper1 we will also present the major research findings, and discuss the challenge and promise, of corpus-based contrastive studies of two distinctly different languages such as English and Chinese, by focusing on passive constructions and classifiers in the two languages.
Keywords 关键词
Corpora 语料库 Contrastive analysis 对比分析 English 英语 Chinese 汉语 Passive constructions 被动结构 Classifiers 量词