A Typological Comparison on Chinese Word Order with Kyrgyz and Russian

Abstract

The word order type of Chinese syntax configuration was generally summarized as VO type, however, the study on the syntactic configuration of language type features and tendencies pointed out that in fact it is more inclined to be summarized as OV type. Kyrgyz and Russian were chosen as the contrast languages in this study. The former is a typical OV-type language, and the latter is a typical VO-type language. The effectiveness of syntactic configuration was tested again by comparing these two languages with Chinese.The result shows that the syntactic configuration which is used to confirm the tendency of language types is effective. Through the study of word order types, it is considered that Chinese tends to be regarded as OV type like Kyrgyz, not VO type like Russian.For Chinese learners whose mother tongues are Kyrgyz and Russian, it is significantly important to understand the similarities and differences between Chinese and other OV and VO languages.