A syntactic and semantic comparative analysis of the predicate form of subject and object clauses in Chinese and Arabic | ||
| Bulletin of The Faculty of Languages & Translation | ||
| Volume 25, Issue 2, July 2023, Pages 289-308 PDF (965.49 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/bflt.2023.319545 | ||
| Author | ||
| Zaki Mohamed Abdelrasol | ||
| Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Faculty of Languages & Translation. AlAzhar University, Cairo, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The philosophical relationship between the subject and verb in language relates to the nature of the relationship between reality and language, as well as the concepts of existence, freedom, and responsibility. In philosophy, the subject and verb are considered fundamental concepts in understanding existence and reality. The subject is responsible for the action that it performs, and the verb is defined as the movement or change that occurs in reality. Therefore, it can be said that the subject and verb represent fundamental concepts in understanding freedom and responsibility. It is worth noting that language plays a crucial role in shaping this philosophical relationship between the subject and verb. Language is a means of expressing the subject and verb and helps to understand how the subject affects the verb and reality. Through language, humans can think about the relationship between the subject, verb, and reality and understand the concept of freedom and responsibility in this context. Subject and object are a pair of basic philosophical categories. This paper applies the concept to the linguistic analysis, pointing out that there are three pairs of subjects and objects in language activities, such as coding subject and object, decoding subject and object, and clause code subject and object, and there are some interactive relations between these subjects and objects. Based on this, this paper compares the predicate forms of Chinese and Arabic clauses at the syntactic and semantic levels, and analyzes the subject-object relationship presented by the two -- the integration of subject-object in Chinese is obvious, while the separation of subject-object in Arabic is weaker than that in Chinese. This is coupled with the basic philosophical thinking mode of Han and Arabian nationalities. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Subject-Object Relation; Chinese; Arabic; Predication; Syntax; Semantic Level | ||
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