A Study on the Application of Reinhart"s ‘Theta System’ to Modern Chinese : Focusing on Ba-construction
JinHyeon Seo · 중국어문학논집 · 2020
In this paper, we explored Reinhart (2002)’s Theta system, which suggested new type of semantic role, and presented a syntactic realization based on semantics of each argument We also analyzed the applicability of the theta system to modern Chinese, divided into four categories according to the semantic roles he presented. The results showed that his theory was presented based on English, which was mostly applicable to Chinese with the same order of words SVO. However, it was necessary to modify the theta system to explain the ba-construction, a SOV phenomenon that is frequently used in Chinese. To this end, the ‘The theta system’ that conforms to the modern Chinese grammar was newly modified by adding the applying condition and computational systems for ba-construction I and II, respectively, before and after the lexicon marking and reduction of lexical operation process.