Syntactic difference of "Youxinxin(有信心)” between mainland Chinese and Hong Kong,Macau and Taiwan Chinese

Abstract

本文对比港澳台中文与标准中文在"有 信心"句法功能方面的异同,并探讨英语be confident的功能作为参照。分析的内容之一是港澳台中文与标准中文的"有信心"在状中结构以及连谓结构上的异同,并将差异归结为英语be confident of的语义迁移影响。分析的另一个重点是港澳台中文"有信心"带宾语小句的情况。标准中文中里没有这种结构,港澳台的用法应该源自英语be confident加宾语小句的结构。"有信心"在港澳台中文的表现,体现了语言接触中语义迁移与句法迁移的辩证关系。 The paper analyzes the syntactic and functional differences of "youxinxin(有信心)" in serial verb construction and verb-object structure between Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong,Macau and Taiwan Chinese.The similarity and difference of "youxinxin(有信心)" in serial verb construction are analyzed in terms of polarity,modality,voice and subject.It is pointed out that Mainland Chinese does not have the verb-object structure of "youxinxin(有信心)",while Hong Kong,Macau and Taiwan Chinese do.It is argued that the difference is caused by semantic and syntactic transference of English in language contact.