期刊论文

中文

北京科技大学学报(社会科学版)

1008-2689

2013

5

9-17

10.3969/j.issn.1008-2689.2013.05.002

（基金项目]‘‘教育部新世纪优秀人才支持计划”《英汉因果复旬比较研究》（编号为NCET-13-0819）的部分成果.

本校为第一机构

Typological studies show that world languages fall into three types in terms of the semantic element which is primarily responsible for the expression of weather. They are:1) Process expressing weather, 2) Participant expressing weather, and 3) Process and Participant expressing weather collectively. As events lacking inherent participants, meteorological phenomena are typically expressed as impersonal constructions, with the semantic load falling mainly on the Process (e.g. It’s raining in English and 下雨了in Chinese). The present study comp...

Typological studies show that world languages fall into three types in terms of the semantic element which is primarily responsible for the expression of weather. They are： 1） Process expressing weather, 2） Participant expressing weather, and 3） Process and Participant expressing weather collectively. As events lacking inherent participants, meteorological phenomena are typically expressed as impersonal constructions, with the semantic load falling mainly on the Process （e.g. It＇s raining in English and ~/~/~ ~ in Chinese）. The present s...