A Comparative Study of the Citation Format"VP Zen Me Le"and"Zen Me VP Le"
Both the"VP zen me le"(VP怎么了)and"zen me VP le"(怎么VP了)format can be used in the response to indi-cate the rebuttal tone to the recipient,but the two are not identical."VP zen me le"(VP怎么了)embodies the subjectivity and inter-active subjectivity of the speaker,and more considers the consequences of events,evaluations and the examples they put forward for reasonableness."zen me VP le"(怎么VP了)denies or questions the two aspects of the way and cause of event"V"."zen me VP le"(怎么VP了)is more intense than"VP zen me le"(VP怎么了)."VP zen me le"(VP怎么了)is used to give a position,and"zen me VP le"(怎么VP了)is used to deny and question positions.The position of the quoted response establishes a rebuttal con-text for the two,but the syntactic position of"zen me"(怎么)is different.At the level of information structure,the semantic relation-ship between viewpoint and extension is presented before and after"VP zen me le"(VP怎么了),and the subject-detail relationship is formed before and after"zen me VP le".
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