摘要：
Noun-incorporation is a process of word-formation in which a nominal constituent is added to a verbal root, with the resulting construction being both a verb and a single word. The incorporated element may be the object of the verbal element; it may also denote agent, instrument, location, etc. Once incorporated the nominal constituent figures less prominently. The meaning of the resulting new word is more than the sum of its two constituents. This is the most nearly syntactic of all morphological processes that has morphological, semantic, syntactic, and discourse consequences (Mithun 1984: 847). By reference to relevant typological studies, this article describes the morphological, syntactic, and semantic features of noun-incorporation in Chinese within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. It is found that the new verb may be intransitive or transitive and the two elements may occur continuously or discontinuously and they may swap their positions. This process may shed light on the complementary and continuous relation between lexis and grammar and the ergative nature of Chinese.
作者机构：
[Zhang, Man] Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Foreign Languages, Wuhan, Peoples R China.;[Zhang, Man] Humboldt Univ, Fac Language Literature & Humanities, Berlin, Germany.
通讯机构：
[Man Zhang] S;School of Foreign Languages, Central China Normal University , Wuhan, China<&wdkj&>Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities, Humboldt University of Berlin , Berlin, Germany . E-mail: zm@ccnu.edu.cn
摘要：
Until now, there has been very little unified analysis of metadiscourse across speech and writing. Drawing on a reflexive metadiscourse model, this article conducts a multidimensional analysis of metadiscourse across 10 spoken and written registers in a corpus of 626 texts. Two metadiscourse dimensions, participants’ interaction and discourse presentation, are identified. The more interactive registers are more prominently marked by participants’ interaction, and the more informational registers by discourse presentation. Along metadiscourse dimensions, the 10 registers are lumped into 6 clusters: ‘discussion broadcasts and public conversations’, ‘scripted speeches and unscripted speeches’, ‘general prose and nondiscussion broadcasts’, ‘press and fiction’, ‘casual conversations’, and ‘academic prose’. Metadiscourse markers of both dimensions are frequently used in registers of the first two clusters which are highly interactive and informational, while they rarely occur in registers of the next two clusters which have low interactive or informational focuses. Metadiscourse markers of participants’ interaction are pervasive in the highly interactive register (casual conversations), and those of discourse presentation in the highly informational register (academic prose).
作者机构：
[Ji, Suhe; Qin, Xiaoqing] Cent China Normal Univ, Sch Foreign Languages, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.;[Li, Ke] Wuhan Univ, Sch Journalism & Commun, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China.;[Li, Ke] Wuhan Univ, Ctr Studies Media Dev, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China.
通讯机构：
[Ke Li] S;School of Journalism and Communication, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China<&wdkj&>Center for Studies of Media Development, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China<&wdkj&>Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
关键词：
Chinese university English teachers;academic reading;professional development;social media;content knowledge;pedagogical content knowledge
作者机构：
[Yan, Sheng] Cent China Normal Univ, Wuhan, Peoples R China.;[Liu, Yuanjia] Cent China Normal Univ, Language & Language Educ Res Ctr, Wuhan, Peoples R China.
通讯机构：
[Yuanjia Liu] S;School of Foreign Languages, Central China Normal University, China
