现代英语的特点

caiyun

现代英语有个特点是从synthetic language (old English)变成了analytic language。这个可以举个例子吗？有点难理解。

ekt1098520

这个问题，当时上课时专门讲了啊，请参考第二单元的课程回放和ppt

A synthetic language is characterized by frequent and systematic use of inflected forms to express grammatical relationships.

An analytic language is marked by a relatively frequent use of functional words and changes in word order to express syntactic relations, rather than of inflected forms.

caiyun

ekt1098520 发表于 2024-2-26 17:14
这个问题，当时上课时专门讲了啊，请参考第二单元的课程回放和ppt

A synthetic language is characterized ...

收到，懂了。synthetic就是inflected，analytic就是通过词序和功能词来体现语法关系。