VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HA NOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES œsig› 'TRIỆU THÀNH NAM THE EXPERIENTIAL STRUCTURE OF NOMINAL GROUP IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE (CÂU TRÚC KINH NGHIỆM CỦA CỤM DANH TỪ TRONG TIENG ANH VÀ TIẾNG VIỆT) MLA. Minor Thesis Field: English Linguistics Code: Gb 22 15 HA NOI, 2010 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HA NOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES ose — M. Minor Thesis THE EXPERIENTIAL STRUCTURE OF NOMINAL GROUP IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE (CAU TRUC KINIT NGITIEM CUA CUM DANTI TU TRONG TIENG ANH VA TIENG VIET) Field: English Linguistics Code: 60 2215 By: Triệu Thanh Nam Supervisor. Nguyén [luyén Minh, M.
HA NOI, 2010 kẻ CONTENTS PART 1: INTRODUCTION I Rationale for the study. Scope of the study ¬ 1L. Methods of the study & V. Methods of Anatysis 3 PART 2: DEVELOPMENTS CHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL BACKGROUN, AND REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 1.8ysiemic Funetional Gramutar.
eo ccoee seventeen 4 I , Noun Phrase or Nominal Group: ‘The problem of labeling - 5 TH. Noun Phrase/Normnal Group in Different. Schools of Grammar 6 1, Noun Phrase in Structural Grammar and Generative Transformational Grammar. Noun Phrase in [unctional Discourse Grammar.
Nominat Group in Syslerie Eunctiona† irammar 8 IV. The Nominal Group in English. " 1, An overvisw of English Nominal Group. The experiential structure of the neminal group in Fingtish " 2.
The Mead: The Thing. The Postroch fier — thz Quah fier 16 3, Summary on the experiential structure of the nominal group in English. l6 understanding of the world. which include all that come ftom our imagination.
‘The logical metafuntion works above the experiential, Tl builds up our reasoning on the basis of our experience, The second metafumction is the interpersonal metafunction which comprises the three component areas; the speaker/writer persona, social distance and relative social status, and which serves lo establish and maidai social relations. The textuat metafunction is to provide links of building/setting up discourses, By this function, we can tell a text from a set of sentences randomly mixed together. It ean be said that the theory of 3 metaftnetions is the underlying background of SFG TT. Noun Phrase or Nominal Group: The problem of labeling In doing this thesis, we have run over the two terms: Noun Phrase and Nominal Group, which are used Io refer to the same thing but in different respeels of meaning, Fer the sake of futher investigations later into the issues, it is better to look into the two terms at the right beginning for any distinction to be made.
Within the scope of this study, ths two terms: Noun phrase and Nominal group are the two labels to refer to the same structural unit in language. The thing that matters to be mentioned here is that each term is used in a certain context reflecting a certain choice Noun phrase is a term of formal grammar, it has ben used in formal traditional grammar for a long time and has become so popular in linguistics. As a formal term, itis likely to be understood fully in terms of intrinsic formal features of structural constituents, To the term Nominal Group, il is easily understand thal Tlalliday bas his own reason for his chcics, As a functionalist, Halliday has always made himsolfa distance from formal grammar. One of his ways of doing this is trying to avoid formal tems in SFG.
‘Therefore, he uses Nominal Group. Also, he makes a distinction between the concept of Group and of Phrase. A group is defined as “an expansion of a word”, whereas “a Phrase is a contraction of a clause, The choice of the term Phrase is more preferable when dealing, with it as a larger unit in clausal relationship. However, this distinction makes no meaningful differences to the content of our analysis in this thesis.
In other words, in the scope of our study, Noun Phrase andor Nominal Group are interchangeable, but because the study is based on the Systemic Functional Grammar by Halliday the thesis will use the lomm Nominal Group. understanding of the world. which include all that come ftom our imagination. ‘The logical metafuntion works above the experiential, Tl builds up our reasoning on the basis of our experience, The second metafumction is the interpersonal metafunction which comprises the three component areas; the speaker/writer persona, social distance and relative social status, and which serves lo establish and maidai social relations.
The textuat metafunction is to provide links of building/setting up discourses, By this function, we can tell a text from a set of sentences randomly mixed together. It ean be said that the theory of 3 metaftnetions is the underlying background of SFG TT. Noun Phrase or Nominal Group: The problem of labeling In doing this thesis, we have run over the two terms: Noun Phrase and Nominal Group, which are used Io refer to the same thing but in different respeels of meaning, Fer the sake of futher investigations later into the issues, it is better to look into the two terms at the right beginning for any distinction to be made. Within the scope of this study, ths two terms: Noun phrase and Nominal group are the two labels to refer to the same structural unit in language.
The thing that matters to be mentioned here is that each term is used in a certain context reflecting a certain choice Noun phrase is a term of formal grammar, it has ben used in formal traditional grammar for a long time and has become so popular in linguistics. As a formal term, itis likely to be understood fully in terms of intrinsic formal features of structural constituents, To the term Nominal Group, il is easily understand thal Tlalliday bas his own reason for his chcics, As a functionalist, Halliday has always made himsolfa distance from formal grammar. One of his ways of doing this is trying to avoid formal tems in SFG. ‘Therefore, he uses Nominal Group.
Also, he makes a distinction between the concept of Group and of Phrase. A group is defined as “an expansion of a word”, whereas “a Phrase is a contraction of a clause, The choice of the term Phrase is more preferable when dealing, with it as a larger unit in clausal relationship. However, this distinction makes no meaningful differences to the content of our analysis in this thesis. In other words, in the scope of our study, Noun Phrase andor Nominal Group are interchangeable, but because the study is based on the Systemic Functional Grammar by Halliday the thesis will use the lomm Nominal Group.
understanding of the world. which include all that come ftom our imagination. ‘The logical metafuntion works above the experiential, Tl builds up our reasoning on the basis of our experience, The second metafumction is the interpersonal metafunction which comprises the three component areas; the speaker/writer persona, social distance and relative social status, and which serves lo establish and maidai social relations. The textuat metafunction is to provide links of building/setting up discourses, By this function, we can tell a text from a set of sentences randomly mixed together.
It ean be said that the theory of 3 metaftnetions is the underlying background of SFG TT. Noun Phrase or Nominal Group: The problem of labeling In doing this thesis, we have run over the two terms: Noun Phrase and Nominal Group, which are used Io refer to the same thing but in different respeels of meaning, Fer the sake of futher investigations later into the issues, it is better to look into the two terms at the right beginning for any distinction to be made. Within the scope of this study, ths two terms: Noun phrase and Nominal group are the two labels to refer to the same structural unit in language. The thing that matters to be mentioned here is that each term is used in a certain context reflecting a certain choice Noun phrase is a term of formal grammar, it has ben used in formal traditional grammar for a long time and has become so popular in linguistics.
As a formal term, itis likely to be understood fully in terms of intrinsic formal features of structural constituents, To the term Nominal Group, il is easily understand thal Tlalliday bas his own reason for his chcics, As a functionalist, Halliday has always made himsolfa distance from formal grammar. One of his ways of doing this is trying to avoid formal tems in SFG. ‘Therefore, he uses Nominal Group. Also, he makes a distinction between the concept of Group and of Phrase.
A group is defined as “an expansion of a word”, whereas “a Phrase is a contraction of a clause, The choice of the term Phrase is more preferable when dealing, with it as a larger unit in clausal relationship. However, this distinction makes no meaningful differences to the content of our analysis in this thesis. In other words, in the scope of our study, Noun Phrase andor Nominal Group are interchangeable, but because the study is based on the Systemic Functional Grammar by Halliday the thesis will use the lomm Nominal Group. Rationale for the stuity Ower the last few decades, the modern linguistics has seen the remarkable developments of functional linguistics in which the theory of systemic fimetional grammar developed by Halliday is aid to have the groalest influences.
Vieltamese linguistics has also inihated new trends, basing on the fimetional eranmars, Some Vietnamese linguists, such as, Cao Xuan Ilao with Sơ zhảo ngữ pháp chức năng (1991), Ioang Van Van with Ngữ pháp kinh: nghiệm của củ tổng Việt, Mô tả theo quan điểm chức năng hệ thông 2001), and Diep Quang Ban with Wgữ pháp tiéng Viét (2008) axe the first to apply the theory of Systemic fimetional grammar into the interpretation of Vietnamese language. And their studies marked new important changes m the approaches lo Viciname: language. ‘These works have settled a functional hase for other further studies on Vietnamese under Ihe light of the Syslarmie functional grammar. In these works, fimetional aspects and relationships, such as the issues of Theme, Mood, and Process of transitivity of clauses have been described.
Besides, structures below clauses, such as, nominal groups, also have reerived some interpretations. Hawever, on Vielmamsse language in general and Victnamese nominal groups in particular, there have to be more functional studies because theory of functional grammar can be still considered "new" in Vietnamese linguistics. Thal, in ofher words, means the number of people who know and pay altenlion to iL is sift limited. On Vietnamese nominal groups, although there have been some studies, the issue slill tas sore questions to be answered and some debates to be solved, and needs further investigahons.
One question raised to be answered is: Can the experiential functions in Vietnamese nominal groups be clearly determined based on the systemic functional grammar? One debate that has not been solved completely is about the determination of the component clertenlQs) of the Head and Thing in Vietnamese nominal groups. Furthermore, for Vietnamese learners of English, the full understanding of nominal groups in English and Vietnamese has been proved to be of the great importance, especially, when they want to develop skills of high proficicney, such as translation. As a matter of fact, dense scientific terms, expressions of complicated abstract issues, etc. are in PART 1: INTRODUCTION T.
Rationale for the stuity Ower the last few decades, the modern linguistics has seen the remarkable developments of functional linguistics in which the theory of systemic fimetional grammar developed by Halliday is aid to have the groalest influences.