WORD ORDER AND WORD ORDER CHANGE IN MANDARIN CHINESE

汉语词序与词序变化

黎天睦(Timothy Light)

《Journal of Chinese Linguistics》 7卷2期 (1979/06) Pp. 149-180

摘要

In recent years Tai, and Li and Thompson have proposed that the word order of Mandarin Chinese is Subject-Object-Verb (SOV). This essay examines those proposals and instead suggests that Chinese is Subject -Verb-Object (SVO). It is further suggested that from Old Chinese to Modern Chinese there has been no change in the order of Verb and Object, but instead a change in the position of prepositional phrases and in the relation of verbs to nouns and adverbs.

並列摘要

近年来，戴浩一、李讷和桑德拉．湯生诸位先生提出一个理论，認为汉语的词序是主－宾－动（SOV）。本文旨在检讨这个理论，并且提出另一个看法。从古汉语发展到现代汉语的过程中，主－动－宾（SVO）的词序并没有改变；不过，介词短语的位置与及动词跟名词和副词的关系却有差别。