중고등학교 영어 교과서에 나타난 병렬 어순

Abstract

Word order plays an important role in determining the relationship between words, and the meaning of each sentence. As stated in this paper, the characteristics of each language seem to be the product of the customs of its native speakers. English has its own unique word order which is different from those of other languages. So, we have to understand word order in English in order to comprehend English correctly. Furthermore, the change of word order in many cases is concerned with not only psychological reasons such as ‘emphasis' and ‘expectation', but also cultural backgrounds. The aim of this paper is to examine how words are arranged and what an important matter the word order may be in learning English. The aspects of the word order in the eight categories are explored on the basis of the Greenberg's Marked Theory(1966) and Cooper and Ross(1975)'s word order. The results are as follows: (1) The chronologically preceding term and the continually preceding term (state or action) are followed by the following one; (2) The male term precedes the female one, but in undesirable cases or in animals, or in an inanimate entities the ordering of sex is reserved; (3) In the cases of up-down, front- back, strong-weak and large-small, the former of each case appears at the first place in the word order; (4) Small numbers precede large numbers; (5) The term nearer to the speaker is followed by the term farther from the speaker; (6) The positive term in evaluation precedes the negative one. (7) The essential term is followed by the non-essential one. (8) The word order of pronouns is second pronoun, third pronoun, and first pronoun.