A Comparative Study Of N+V/V+N Compounds Between English And Chinese

The thesis makes a comparative analysis of English and Chinese N+V/V+N compounds, including exploration of syntactic structures and semantic analysis of English and Chinese N+V/V+N compounds. It hopes to account for new English and Chinese N+V/V+N compounds.First of all, this thesis analyzes the syntactic structures of research objects. English and Chinese N+V/V+N compound nouns are composed of two syntactic structures: subject-predicate structure and verb-object structure. Chinese N+V/V+N compound nouns have attribute-head structure. English and Chinese N+V/V+N compound verbs have three syntactic structures which include subject-predicate structure, verb-object structure and adverbial-head structure. English N+V/V+N compounds have normal and reverse word order, while Chinese N+V/V+N compounds only have the normal word order. These indicate that English and Chinese have different characteristics in composing N+V/V+N compounds on syntactic structures. Afterwards, the thesis conducts a semantic analysis of English and Chinese N+V/V+N compounds. Based on the analysis of the semantic relations between the former parts and the latter parts of English and Chinese N+V/V+N compounds, several semantic roles are put forward to explain and demonstrate the semantic relations between the parts. Based on the analysis of semantic composition of English and Chinese N+V/V+N compounds, this paper summaries the following to illustrate the semantic composition process of English and Chinese N+V/V+N compounds:A+B=C explicit, (A+B)+=C imPlicit, A++B=C implicit, A+B+= Cimplicit, A++B+= C implicit and A+B= C exPlicit& Cimplicit.