This paper makes an attempt to research splitting of sentence elements in English. It focuses on the end focus and end weight as information structure in causing splitting of sentence elements in English. Besides, fai...This paper makes an attempt to research splitting of sentence elements in English. It focuses on the end focus and end weight as information structure in causing splitting of sentence elements in English. Besides, failure to recog- nize splitting in English may result in incorrect translation.展开更多
Periodic sentence is often identified as sentence with main clause as end-weight. In fact, this definition is so confusing that it causes the same confusion in practice. This paper aims at rethinking periodic sentence...Periodic sentence is often identified as sentence with main clause as end-weight. In fact, this definition is so confusing that it causes the same confusion in practice. This paper aims at rethinking periodic sentence and advocates the adoption of noble styles with periodic sentence as its chief representative.展开更多
文摘This paper makes an attempt to research splitting of sentence elements in English. It focuses on the end focus and end weight as information structure in causing splitting of sentence elements in English. Besides, failure to recog- nize splitting in English may result in incorrect translation.
文摘Periodic sentence is often identified as sentence with main clause as end-weight. In fact, this definition is so confusing that it causes the same confusion in practice. This paper aims at rethinking periodic sentence and advocates the adoption of noble styles with periodic sentence as its chief representative.
