LING 1030 The language of Chinese: Word Formation

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Analysis of Chinese Language
Chinese is a standardized language that shares many aspects with other varieties of languages such as English. However, it has significant differences which make it unique from the other languages. For instance, it does not have inflection which means that it is only made up of one form. In this language, crucial elements for instance, numbers whether singular or plural and the action tense are usually not shown in any grammatical terms. In some situations, the language possesses many particles that serve to express verbal aspect and in some occasions they are employed to show the moodCITATION Nor03 \p " 74" \l 1033 (Norman 74). The differences in the word formation, its unique reduplication characteristic and the sentence structure arrangements are among the key differentiating features of the Chinese language.
Word Formation
In Chinese language, the words utilized and their connectors are usually not clear and the script does not employ the gaps between them. Basing on grammar rules, most strings of characters tend to behave differently for example in some situations as single words while in others they are separated. Many of these language verbs are usually translated by verb plus noun compounds, therefore regarded to be single lexical words. In some instances, the two components can be separated for instance by aspect markers, and they usually behave grammatically as a verb plus an objectCITATION Xia13 \p 24 \l 1033 (Xiao 24).
The morphemes of Chinese language are normally monosyllabic. The syllables in such cases are represented mostly as a rule by single characters. Some of the words are made of single syllable while others are made of compound syllables, either by two or more monosyllabic morphemes that usually can stand on their own. The two syllable compound nouns in many instances have the head on the right, while in the compound verbs the head is on the left. Some native disyllable morphemes usually have a consonant alliteration. The language is composed of some words that cannot be split into separate morphemes, despite the fact that they are written with characters that otherwise represent specific morphemes. The monosyllabic words in some cases have substitute disyllabic forms which possess the same meaningCITATION Ros06 \p 57 \l 1033 (Ross and Jing-Heng 57).
Sentence structure
The Chinese language utilizes a normal word order of subject–verb-object. It is regarded to be a head-last language, implying the fact that modifiers precede the words they are modifying. An example in a noun phrase, the head noun usually comes last, and all other modifiers for instance relative clauses, are staged in front of itCITATION Nor03 \p 76 \l 1033 (Norman 76). The language also utilizes serial verb constructions. In this form, two or more verbs, or verb phrases are employed in sequence. Prepositions of the language behave in a similar way to those of serialized verbs in which are commonly regarded as co-verbs. The language also possesses position markers that are usually staged after a noun and sometimes act as prepositions. In many instances, they are utilized together with the co-verbs. In other instances, predicate adjectives are mostly employe...