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Comparative Study on Chinese and Japanese Ambiguous Constructions

Sheng Wen -zhong 1

1上海外国語大学

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ABSTRACT

Ambiguous constructions are closely related with types of word orders. Many ambiguous constructions coming into being are due to the typology of word order. By virtue of the comparison between harmonious word order language (the word order of whichis similar to the ones of most languages in the world) and inharmonious word order language (the word order of which is dissimilar to the ones of most languages in the world), this study attempts to show that the former possesses less amounts of ambiguous constructions, andthe latter has more amounts of ambiguous constructions. In addition, the former’s (such as Japanese) ambiguous constructions hardly have any productivity, while the latter’s (such as Chinese) ambiguous constructions mostly have very high productivity.

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