A Functional Re-analysis of the “wh-continuing Clause” in English and Its Translation

YI Yong

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YI Yong. A Functional Re-analysis of the “wh-continuing Clause” in English and Its Translation[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2018, 34(2): 13-18.

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YI Yong. A Functional Re-analysis of the “wh-continuing Clause” in English and Its Translation[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2018, 34(2): 13-18.

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A Functional Re-analysis of the “wh-continuing Clause” in English and Its Translation

YI Yong

Guangdong AIB Polytechnic College, Guangzhou 510507, China

Received Date: 2017-03-10
Available Online: 2021-06-01
Publish Date: 2021-06-01

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This paper takes a systemic functional approach to the syntactic analysis of the “wh-continuing clause” in English anew, and it finds that this special continuing clause has some new features: (1) the relatives of wh-continuing clause could be a pronoun like which and who, or an adverb like where and when etc. (2) the logic-semantic relation between the initiating clause and wh-continuing clause may be “extension” or “enhance”. In addition, the author also discusses the English-Chinese translation of wh-continuing clause, which shows that SFG also has its great power and advantages in guiding the research on the theory and practice of translation.
- Systemic Functional Grammar,
- wh-continuing clause,
- functional analysis,
- translation

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