On the Subject Complement and its Basic Types in Chinese

Authors

  • Yingjie Zhang

  • Huifen Tong

Keywords:

subject complement; object complement;pivotal structure; complement; predicate complement

Abstract

Chinese subject complement has a very long history of existence since the West Han Dynasty But as a grammatical term in Chinese it is an unknown or unfamiliar concept In fact it always appears at the lower level of the predicate component and forms the subject-predicate relationship with the subject as a logical category of stating and being stated For example the sentence can be converted to The winner is the subject It goes without saying that the component of the original sentence is a subject complement Because it is at the lower level of the predicate and its logical relationship is directed to the sentence subject Compared to the components of subject complement such as in this sentence same as it s very different that its logical relationship just points to the which is used as a predicate verb Therefore the sentence cannot be converted in the above-mentioned manner otherwise It is funny or really confusing for in the sentence that means the end of life or the entry into a critical situation

How to Cite

On the Subject Complement and its Basic Types in Chinese. (2021). Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 21(G15), 21-31. https://doi.org/10.34257/GJHSSGVOL21IS15PG21

References

On the Subject Complement and its Basic Types in Chinese

Published

2021-12-15

How to Cite

On the Subject Complement and its Basic Types in Chinese. (2021). Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 21(G15), 21-31. https://doi.org/10.34257/GJHSSGVOL21IS15PG21