Abstract
Chinese and English are the most influential languages in the world. More than 460 million people use English as their first language who are distributed over more than 10 countries. Over seventy countries consider English as their official language while about 1 billion people are studying it in the other countries. English plays an significant role in the fields of media, social interaction, entertainment, politics and so on.Chinese is the most widely used language in the world which are spoken by more than 1.4 billion people all around the world. Except for used in China itself, Chinese is widely used in East Asia and Southeast Asia as well.This paper aims to analyze the differences between English and Chinese from the perspective of morphology and structure.
Keywords Chinese, English, morphology, structure
Contents
Abstract I
Contents I
Introduction 1
1.Grammar of the two languages 2
1.1 The concept of grammar 2
1.2 Characteristics of the Grammar 2
2.The grammar characteristics of English 4
2.1 Sentence structure of English 4
2.2 morphology and language habits of English 6
3.The grammar characteristic of Chinese 9
3.1 sentence structure of Chinese 9
3.2 morphology and language habits of Chinese 10
4 .Conclusion 13
5.References 14