Title:
THE ATTRIBUTE-SPACE-TIME CLASSIFICATION OF MIRROR-IMAGE INVERSION SENTENCES IN MODERN CHINESE

Authors:
Xiaolan Gan ,China

Abstract:
Mirror-image inversion sentences (MISs) are characterized by the symmetric reciprocity of syntactic components and the maintenance of propositional meanings. The previous classifications about MISs in modern Chinese have appeared confusions, cross-omissions or incomplete generalizations, no matter from the perspectives of described words, body words or constructions. Based on the three elements (i.e. attribute, space and time) of events, this paper finds that MISs in modern Chinese can fall into six categories, namely the attributive type, the spatial type, the temporal type, the attributive-temporal type, the spatial-temporal type and the attributive-spatial-temporal type