정보구조를 활용한 중국어 어순교육 방안: 타동문의 필수성분 배열을 중심으로

Abstract

We observe that Chinese does not have morphological processes, so word order is relatively fixed in sentence structure, As such, word order plays a important role, Crucially, the basic word order of the Chinese language is ‘S-V-O’. However, in examples in textbooks or in actual conversations with Chinese people, learners feel confused even about the basic word order of Chinese sentences. Therefore, this paper applies the concept of ‘information structure’ to Chinese language education, and attempts to explain the problem of arranging components in Chinese sentences through the difference in information structure appearing at the syntactic layer and the discourse layer. In addition to the ‘grammatical relations’ between predicate and noun phrase arguments, there is another principle called ‘information packaging’ that is at work in the creation of sentences. By explaining the difference in information structure between the ‘basic structure (基本结构)’ and the ‘transformational structure (转换结构)’ of Chinese sentences, it will be more helpful for learners to understand the various word orders shown in the Chinese sentences.