Han Chinese Word Order Type Comparative Study

Basing on theories from contrastive linguistics, this dissertation aims at analyzing the characteristics and principles of word order between Chinese and Koreanlanguages(C&K) from the perspective of linguistic typology, and is mainly withinthe outline of the word order arrangement of argument and non-argument structure, taking the diachronic evolvement as a supplement. The present dissertation consists of six chapters.Chapter One introduces the researching purpose and reasons to select this researching subject. After a brief review of the previous C&K word order studies and summing up the achievements and shortcomings, this chapter makes a general introduction to some critical concepts of typology researches both in China and abroad, relevant theoretical foundations, contents, research methodology and the source of Corpus of this dissertation.Chapter Two discusses word order types of C&K argument in terms of linguistic universal, indicating 2 tendencies and 3 groups of motivations reflected fromnormal distribution and variation type of C&K subject, verb and object. This part also analyzes the interactive mode between C&K double-nominative mark, double-objective mark and word order type.Chapter Three talks about the word order type of NP modifier in C&K non-argument. This chapter describes and explains the sequences of the core noun andits modifiers within the noun phrase.Chapter Four talks about the word order type of VP modifier in C&K non-argument and describes and explains the sequences of the core verb and its modifiers within the verb phrase.This chapter concludes a series of C&K word order relevance including universals, implicational universals and tendencies by depicting the word order type ofC&K non-argument, locates the constraints and motivations leading to different C&K arrangements and carries out he typological explanation accordingly. In the Chapter 3 and 4, the following was talked first: (1) C&K multi-modifiers sequencesare concluded by analyzing the word order arrangements of single modifier and double modifiers respectively; (2) Probably appearing C&K sequences and not permitted C&K sequences are listed and different motivations of language forms arefound out; (3) Basing on noun phrase level and focusing on two problems, wordorder concordance between each kind of parameters and related nouns is deducedby discussing implicational universals of various dual- parameters. The conclusionswere carried out by contrast and analysis: (1) C&K time modifiers tend to be more often preposed than place modifiers; (2) The sequence of C&K VP modifiersis in accordance with"Electronic Hierarchical Distributed Principle".Chapter Five makes a special case study of C&K diachronic evolvement by inspecting two special cases which go through evolvement diachronically, namely,the historical evolvement of numeral-noun structure and negative structure. By comparing this evolvement with the C&K evolving orbit diachronically, either similar or different, I derive the typological motivations and remake an explanation to the synchronic language phenomenon.Chapter Six is the conclusion part in which researching in this dissertation issummed up, general characteristics of Korean typology are concluded and the following research is summarized.