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Synthetic vs. Analytic
鈪?/p>
. Answer Questions
Directions: Answer the Questions in English briefly, with examples if
necessary.
1.
What are synthetic languages(
缁煎悎璇?/p>
)? How are they characterized?
According
to
Webster
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s
Ninth
New
Collegiate
Dictionary,
A
synthetic
language
is
鈥?/p>
Characterized
by
frequent
and
systematic
use
of
inflected
forms to express grammatical relationships
鈥?/p>
2.
What
are
analytical
languages
锛堝垎鏋愯锛?/p>
?
How
are
they
characterized?
According
to
The
Random
House
College
Dictionary
,
An
analytic
language
is
鈥?/p>
Characterized
by
a
relatively
frequent
use
of
function
words,
auxiliary
verbs
and
changes
in
words
order
to
express
syntactic
relations,
rather than of inflected forms
鈥?/p>
.
3.
Why English language is more flexible in word order
锛堣搴忥級
? Why is
it not so in Chinese?
Because word order is more connected with the formal changes. If the
form change is more flexible, the word order is more flexible. Chinese
language
is
an
analytic
language,
the
word
order
cannot
be
change
at
random,
in
which
the
relationship
between
the
words
are
closely
related
with
word
order and function words.
4.
What is the usual
word
order in English
sentences? What are
the nine
types of inversion in English sentences?
The usual word order in English sentence is Subject-Verb-Object. The
nine
types
of
inversion
in
English
sentences
include:
interrogative
inversion, imperative inversion, exclamatory inversion, hypothetical
inversion,
balance
inversion,
link
inversion,
signpost
inversion,
negative inversion, metrical inversion.
1.
5.
What are the E
鈥?/p>
C differences in formal words
锛堝舰寮忚瘝锛?/p>
?
English language is featured in its abundant function words, of which
is
article.
Articles
are
frequent
employed.
To
use
an
article
or
not,
and
to use a definite one or an indefinite one, makes great difference in
expression of meaning. Auxiliary are more frequently used in Chinese.
Chinese
language
contains
auxiliary
for
tense,
structural
and
mood.
This
last category is especially unique in the language for the richness for
delineation
of
emotions,
like
the
letters
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and
others.
6.
How
many
kinds
of
formal
words
锛堝舰寮忚瘝锛?/p>
are
there
in
English
language?