Modern Russian spoken language compound sentences

Author: Wu Jun
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: This book analyzes the syntactic structure of compound sentences from three levels—grammar, semantics, and pragmatics—and attempts to classify the patterns of oral compound sentences. In addition to the traditional classification of compound sentences into coordinate structures, it further divides oral compound sentences into oral conjunction compound sentences, fusion structures, disambiguation structures, dialogue repetition structures, and subordinate parts used independently in oral language. It highlights the differences between the independent use of fusion structures, disambiguation structures, and subordinate parts and the main-subordinate structures of compound sentences. Cognitive theory and the principle of linguistic economy are used to argue the reasons for the formation of these structures and their theoretical foundations. The book provides a detailed overview of the research on various types of oral compound sentences, including their semantic, structural, functional, and rhetorical characteristics, the types they encompass, and practical analyses of their usage to meet the actual needs of language teaching. For ease of use, tables summarizing the sentence patterns of each chapter are listed at the end of every chapter. The examples used in the theoretical sections of each chapter are attempted to be translated into Chinese. Due to limited space, the examples in each type do not include Chinese explanations but are accompanied by as detailed an explanation as possible in terms of semantics, structure, and function.