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1、TheNounPhrasesintheInauguralAddressesbyAmericanPresidentsAbstract:ThispaperstudiesthenounphrasesintheinauguraladdressesbyAmericanpresidentswithaviewtogainingamoreprofoundunderstandingofthefeaturesofthistypeoftexts.Anounphrasemayhaveacommonnoun,apropernounorapronounasitshead.N
2、ominalsarealsoregardedasatypeofnounphrase.However,inthispaper,thenounphraseincludesonlycommonnounheadednounphrases.Theothertypesofnounphraseareexcludedforthesakeofthesizeofthisresearch.Tocarryouttheresearch,thepresentresearcherfirstfollowedQuirk’stheoryandclassifiedthenounphr
3、asesintofivecategories:Head,Determiner+Head,(Determiner)+Premodification+Head,(Determiner)+Head+Postmodification,and(Determiner)+Premodification+Head+Postmodification.ThenthewriterchosefiveoriginalinauguraladdressesmadebyAmericanpresidentstodothisminiresearch.Theseinauguralad
4、dressesincludedinthisresearcharetheaddressesbyGeorgeWashington(1789),FranklinD.Roosevelt(1945),JohnF.Kennedy(1961),TheodoreRoosevelt(1905),andRichardM.Nixon(1973).Quantitativeandqualitativeanalysesgeneratedthefollowingfindings:First,ofthefivetypesofnounphrases,thetype“Head+Po
5、stmodification”ismostfrequentlyused,accountingfor33.1%ofthetotal.Amongthepostmodifiers,prepositionalphrasesaccountforthemajorpart.Moreover,theseprepositionalphrasesaremainly“of”phrases.Second,thetypeofnounphrasewithonlyonewordasthehead(“Head”)istheleastfrequenttype.Third,allo
6、fthesefivetypesofnounphraseappearmorefrequentlyintheobjectpositionofthesentences.Onlyasmallpercentageofthemfunctionassubjects,andevenfewerserveothergrammaticalfunctions,suchascomplementsandappositives.Qualitativeanalysishelpsfindthatpronounsandnominalclausesarecommonlyusedass
7、ubjectsintheseinauguraladdresses.Keywords:nounphraseinauguraladdresstextanalysis美國(guó)總統(tǒng)演講中的句型特征分析摘要:本文旨在通過(guò)對(duì)名詞短語(yǔ)句法結(jié)構(gòu)和功能的研究，探討美國(guó)總統(tǒng)演說(shuō)辭的文體特點(diǎn)，幫助我們更好地了解就職演說(shuō)。本文以著名英國(guó)語(yǔ)言學(xué)家夸克的理論為基礎(chǔ)，將名詞短語(yǔ)分成五類(lèi)進(jìn)行討論：中心詞，限定詞+中心詞，（限定詞）+前置修飾語(yǔ)+中心詞，（限定詞）+中心詞+后置修飾語(yǔ)，（限定詞）+前置修飾語(yǔ)+中心詞+后置修飾語(yǔ)。通過(guò)定量和定性分析，本文發(fā)現(xiàn)美國(guó)總統(tǒng)就職演說(shuō)有以下主要特
8、點(diǎn)：首先，在所有的五篇演說(shuō)中，帶后置修飾語(yǔ)的名詞短語(yǔ)最為常用。定性分析發(fā)現(xiàn)在“中心詞+后置修飾語(yǔ)”當(dāng)中以“名詞+介詞短語(yǔ)結(jié)構(gòu)”最為常見(jiàn)；
