The Grammatical Fuction and a Pedagogical Grammar for Mandarin gei
| Autor: | Kuo, Mei-Chun, 郭玫君 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 106 In this paper, we disscuss the grammatical function of Mandarin gei, and examine the distribution of gei-constructions in interlanguage through the TOCFL learner corpus. We then design an order of teaching Mandarin gei according to the linguistic theory, the interlanguage in the corpus, and the framework of a pedagogical grammar. We first collected both the descriptions of gei in Chinese teaching materials and the linguistic discussions of gei. Then we made a comparison between the two. After that, we used the TOCFL learner corpus to select and classify the interlanguage in the corpus and present our teaching suggestions. Lastly, we analyzed the difficulty values of all the gei structures as an index for our proposed teaching order. The results and suggestions of this paper are stated below: 1. We think the property of verbs plays an important role in the function and syntax of gei. Especially when the double object verbs have the property of dative alternation, this property is related to the structure of postobject gei. Our suggestion is that the double object verbs in Mandarin should be taught independently and the postobject gei should be introduced at the same time. 2. The error rate of preverbal gei stands at the second place. Moreover, most of the interlanguage materials involve misusing gen and dui instead of gei. We think there are two reasons for that: First, the learners are unaware that the relationship between the verbs and preverbal gei may influence the meaning of the sentence. Second, the translation of preverbal gei is either “to” or “for” in English. These translations correspond to gen and dui, and that confuses the learners. Therefore, we suggest that in the pedagogical grammar, the rule of how to distinguish preverbal gei, gen, and dui should be stated. According to Tsao (1988) and Zhang (2014), we think the difference between preverbal gei, gen, and dui is that, when the speaker wants to point out the direction of an action, it is gen or dui that should be used. The preverbal gei is mainly used to mark the beneficiary of an action. 3. The error rate of V-gei construction is almost as high as that of preverbal gei. According to Her (2006), the semantic center of the V-gei structure is in gei, and V modifies gei with “how the subject gives.” Therefore, we propose that V-gei should be taught as an inseparable structure, and the meaning is “to give in the way of V.” 4. So far, purposive gei construction is not part of the grammar in the Chinese teaching materials yet. There are three reasons why we think the purposive gei should be taught independently: First, the purposive gei construction looks similar to those of preverbal gei or postobject gei, but their functions are different. The function of purposive gei is to supplement information regarding the purpose of the action. Second, we think that purposive gei could be used independently without the main verb when the context is clear. Third, it would be helpful to clarify the difference between purposive gei and rang to the learners, so that the error rate of misusing gei and rang can be reduced, if we separate the construction from the others. |
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