Study on Chinese Semantic Content Based on Syntactic Differences Between Chinese and English

Many disputes appear between minimalists and contextualists in explaining semantic content.This article aims to explore Chinese semantic content based on syntactic differences between Chinese and English.The differences roughly include no tense for predicate verbs, no plural forms for nouns, no case change in forms for pronouns, no formal change between verbs and nouns in sentences, no subjects for many sentences, etc.Through analyses, it is revealed that though Chinese is very context-sensitive, both minimalism and contextualism account for its semantic content.These two linguistic views should not be split completely.