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Comparison of Chinese LBs and English RBs
LI Yun-xia, MENG Fan-mao
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2024.06.008
Linyi University, Linyi, China
As English and Chinese belong to different language families, the left and right branching structures in the two languages are both similar and different. Generally speaking, Chinese has a predominance of left-branching structures and English has a predominance of right-branching structures. That is to say, Chinese is used to using left branches in its expressions, while English is used to using right branches in its expressions.
Left Branch (LB), Right Branch (RB), modifier, adverbial, clause
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