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The Semantic Level Of Syntactic Structures

Posted on:2008-10-30Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W Y ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360272967946Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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The structure of linguistics is the system with different levels. A complicated immediate constituent can mark off different levels of immediate constituent. Between the immediate constituent, there are more or less relations. They connect with each other by some certain distance relations. Language is the coalition of structure and semantic. If there are different levels between structures, there are also different levels between semantic structures. It is worthy while to pay close attention to the semantic levels as well as the structure levels, although no expert have done nothing with the theme.The paper is established in semantic structure, primary study on the layers between phrases and sentences, put emphasis on multilayer structure. The paper is written by the view of form and meaning, structure and function. To describe and analyze in many aspects, the paper absorbs the traditional themes as much as possible when writing. The paper is written with the thought that find the phenomenon, describe the semantic levels, sum the principle of the generate of the phenomenon, and explain the reason of the phenomenon.There are seven parts in the paper. The first part simply introduces the concept of level, especially making a general explanation for the level of semantic; the second part of the paper is an summary for former experts done towards the thesis; in the third part of the paper , it is a study on the semantic level of noun phrases that the semantic structure lies; in part four ,it is a study of the semantic levels of verb phrases; in part five ,it is a research into the principle of the generate of the semantic levels; in the sixth part of the paper , it is a summary of the reason for the existence of the levels, and seek the feature of the levels; and the last part of the paper is a total summary.
Keywords/Search Tags:Semantic layer, Semantic role, downgraded predication
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