Logico-Semantic and Rhetorical Analysis of Verbal Clause Complexes

Abstract

In this chapter, the concept of clause complex and the system of clause complexing will be firstly introduced in Sect. 5.1. Section 5.2 will analyze verbal projection in clause complexing (at clause complex level), that is the logico-semantic relations between the projecting clause and the projected clause, with a view to identifying similarities and differences in the two Chinese translations. In Sect. 5.3, two Chinese translations of verbal clause complexes will be further examined in terms of rhetorical relations, which will bring out the complexity of verbal clause complexes and the scope of projection. And the findings will be summarized in Sect. 5.4. Table 5.1 provides an overview that locates the analysis presented in this chapter in relation to the overall analysis.