A Comparative Study On The Types Of Double - Object Structures In

Ditransitive construction is the very common grammatical structure in humanlanguages, among the ditransitive constructions of different meaning in predicates,the given ditransitive construction is the most universal one and is also considerablyimportant to the grammatical investigation. There are numerous and profoundresearches in this study, however, not sufficient in the Tibeto-Burman language family.On the basis of a large corpus of the Tibeto-Burman languages’ given ditransitiveconstructions, This article seeks to summarize the basic word orders and thegrammatical markers and do some comparsions with the Chinese, and eventually inhopes of enriching the typologies of the given ditransitive construction.This article is divided into four chapters. In the first chapter, we may do a simplesummary of the Tibeto-Burman language and a brief overview of its classification,meanwhile, define the given ditransitive construction in the following three aspects:syntax, semantics and pragmatic. During this process, we focus on explain thedifference between the Ditranistive construction Double-object sentence and at lastwe review the researches related to this study.The second chapter summarizes the word order types of the Tibeto-Burmanlanguage’s given ditransitive construction, in this part, six types of word order hasbeen discussed. Furthermore, specific description and induction have been carried outin both dominant order and non-dominant order types and on this basis,the possiblecauses of the opposition of the dominant and the non-dominant such as the geneticclassification,the impression derived from language contact and the language syntaxmarkings have been discussed. In addition, the word order types in the pragmaticenvironment of topic has also been discussed.Through a series of description and analyzes, we could find that there is anundoubtedly close connection between the word order and the grammatical markers.So, in the third chapter, the three kinds of grammatical markers, namely auxiliarymarkers, morphological markers and word order markers, have been discussedemphatically and the relationship of the word order and the grammatical markers hasalso been referred to in this chapter.In the final chapter, we compare the given ditransitive construction of theTibeto-Burman to the Miao-Yao family, Kam-Tai family and some Chinese dialects interms of word order and grammatical markers. What we want to obtain is to discoverthe similarities in their differences. Additionally, we discuss briefly the differencebetween the North and the South in word order and the homology of the word "give"in the Tibeto-Burman languages.