Title: A Study on Modified-Modifying Sequence in the Compositions by Chinese Advanced Users of English
Abstract: China now has the largest number of users of English in the world and this will probably lead to a distinctive Chinese variety of English. The features of China English were investigated in terms of lexis, pragmatics and syntactic structures and the data under investigation involved spoken discourse, media and literature, while few studies have brought advanced Chinese users’ English writing samples into focus in the perspective of World Englishes. This chapter investigates the syntactic features in terms of the patterns of the positions of subordinate clauses of China English, based on the data collected in 188 writing compositions written by advanced Chinese users of English. The four subordinators under investigation are because, although, if and when. Results show that Chinese users of English tend to place although-, because-, if- and when-subordinate clauses in the initial position, though they can be placed in an initial, medial or final position. I therefore argue that this preference by advanced Chinese users of English may be due to the transfer of Chinese and can be considered as instantiations of syntactic nativization in China English.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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