Abstract
Chinese subject complement has a very long history of existence since the West Han Dynasty. But as a grammatical term in Chinese, it is an unknown or unfamiliar concept. In fact, it always appears at the lower level of the predicate component and forms thesubject-predicate relationship with the subject as a logical category of stating and being stated. For example, the sentence "我们│打‖赢了球"can be converted to: "我们打球，我们赢了"(The winner is the subject "我们")(1)It goes without saying that the component of the original sentence "赢了球"is a subject complement. Because it is at the lower level of the predicate "打",and its logical relationship is directed to the sentence subject "我们"Compared to the components of subject complement, such as “完”in this sentence “我们│打完了‖球”（same as (1)）, it's very different that its logical relationship just points to the "打"which is used as a predicate verb. Therefore, the sentence cannot be converted in the above-mentioned manner; otherwise “我们打球，我们完了”.—It is funny, or really confusing for “完”in the sentence that means the end of life or the entry into a critical situation.
Highlights
Chinese subject complement has a very long history of existence since the West Han Dynasty
Because it is at the lower level of the predicate "打", and its logical relationship is directed to the sentence subject "我们" Compared to the components of subject complement, such as “完” in this sentence “我们│打完了‖球”(same as (1)), it's very different that its logical relationship just 21 points to the "打" which is used as a predicate verb
This paper explores the structural characteristics of the subject complement from the two levels of syntactic level and logical relationship in Chinese
Summary
What is the subject complement in Chinese? This is the most primary question of theoretical inquiry. The original word "饮" as the object complement, that is, it is traditionally referred to as the predicate of "兼语". There is no doubt that "他" of the above subject participated in "吃饭" customarily, as evidenced by the accurate bilingual examples of experts It is precisely because the grammatical identity of the object complement has been verified, the emergence of the subject complement has become an inevitable result. It is obvious that the verb "来", which was originally used as the object complement---but traditionally referred to as a pivot ‘兼语’, turns into the sentence component of the subject complement. Another example: 大太太扯着天津腔,叫他去挑水。(老舍骆驼祥子) Its passive sentence is, 他被大太太扯着天津腔,叫去挑水。. It is needless to say that the language phenomenon of subject complement in Chinese, like object complement, is undoubtedly the objective existence of Chinese sentence components
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