Chapter 2 Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese
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1、Synthetic & Analytic
1）A synthetic language is characterized by frequent and systematic use of inflected forms to express grammatical relationships.2）An analytic language is characterized by frequent use of function words, auxiliary verbs, and changes in word order to express synthetic relations.English: synthetic-analytic language (old English was synthetic + modern English is analytic)Chinese: a typical analytic lan ...