Luận Văn A study on possessive determiners in English and their equivalents in Vietnamese

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Đề tài: A study on possessive determiners in English and their equivalents in Vietnamese


TABLE OF CONTENT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS
PART ONE : INTRODUCTION
I. Rationale .
II. Aims of the study
III. Scope of the study .
IV. Method of the study
V. Design of the study .
PART TWO : DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER I : THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
I. Noun phrase .
1. Definition
2. Syntactic functions of noun phrase
3. Structure of noun phrase
II. Pre-modification of noun phrase
III. Closed-system pre-modification .
1. Pre-determiners .
1.1. Definition .
1.2. Types
2. Determiner .
2.1. Definition .
2.2. Function
2.3. Position in the noun group
2.4. Types of determiners
2.4.1. Definite and indefinite articles .
2.4.2. Demonstrative
2.4.3. Quantifiers .
2.4.4. Interrogative determiners .
2.4.5. Possessive determiners
2.4.5.1. Definition .
2.4.5.2. Usage
3. Post-determiners
3.1. Definitions
3.2. Types
CHAPTER II : POSSESSIVE DETERMINERS IN ENGLISH .
I. Possessive determiners with noun indicating relationship between the noun
and the person involved in .
1. Object in sb‟s possession or ownership
2. Body parts .
3. Personal involvement
4. Personal feelings and thoughts .
5. Personal relationships
6. Personal attributes .
II. Possessive determiners with nouns indicating actions or events used as
1. Subject
2. Object .
3. Other events and states .
III. Possessive determiners with “own” used
1. For contrast
2. For distinguishing possessors
3. For emphasis .
4. For pattern with “of” .
5. For idoms .
CHAPTER III: ENGLISH POSSESSIVE DETERMINERS IN
COMPARISON WITH VIETNAMESE POSSESSIVE DETERMINERS
I. English possessive determiners in comparison with Vietnamese possessive
determiners
1. Similarities .
2. Differences
II. Common mistakes possibly made by Vietnamese learners when using
“possessive determiners” and suggested solutions .
1. Errors in word order of possessive determiners and the head noun .
2. Errors in using “a” and “the” in possessive determiners
3. Errors in using “own”
3.1. After possessive determiners .
3.2. “Own” without a following noun
3.3. “Own” and “Self” .
4. Errors in misunderstanding “its” and “it‟s”
5. Errors in using “plural” form
PART THREE : CONCLUSION
REFERENCES .
APPENDIX


PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
I. Rationale
Nowadays, English become an international language that is used widely
in all fields of life such as: economy, science, tourism, sports and
international conferences. Studying English has become more and more
popular to the youth especially to students. It is considered as a necessary
language for each student during the process of studying and working,
especially, students of foreign language departments.
Like any other languages, when using English in communication
including both using spoken and written English, we should pay more
attention to grammar because without grammar we are not able to write and
speak English perfectly.
During the process of the learning basic grammar, I myself find it
necessary to understand and distinguish the possessive determiners in English
and Vietnamese. Hence, with the hope to help English learners understand
more deeply about using possessive determiners.
The things mentioned above are the reasons why “A study on possessive
determiners in English and its equivalents in Vietnamese” is choosen for my
graduation paper.
II. Aims of the study
For the reasons mentioned above, the study is aimed at:
Elaborating types, functions, usages of possessive determiners
Giving the description and features English possessive determiners
and their equivalent realization in Vietnamese to illustrate the differences and
similarities of possessive determiners in the two languages.
Showing common mistakes made by Vietnamese learners and
suggesting some solutions.
Suggesting some exercises on possessive determiners to overcome
the problem of learners‟ errors.
III. Scope of the study
In every sentence you are likely to find at least one determiner.
Determiners are classified into many kinds. It can be concluded easily that
these words are very essential if you want to understand English, and speak or
write it proficiently. Due to the limitation of time, knowledge and experience,
the writer only focuses the study on analyzing English possessive
determiners, and comparing between possessive determiners in English and
Vietnamese equivalences. Besides, the writer also discusses common
mistakes made by Vietnamese learners and suggests some solutions.
IV. Method of the study
Collecting method related “English possessive determiners” as
grammar books, web pages and dictionaries.
Analyzing data and giving a lot of examples to help the learners
develop further understandings about this study.
Pointing out various mistakes of different levels during the study.
Specifying the technique of contrastive analysis to bring out the
similarities and differences between possessive determiners of the English
and Vietnamese.
With such methods, the writer hopes that suitable methods are used in
order that the study will get good results.
V. Design of the study
This study consists of three main parts:
 Part one, the Introduction, outlines the rationale, aims, method,
scope and the design of the study.
 Part two, the Development, is divided in three chapters:
Chapter I is theoretical background referring to knowledge related to
the study, gives some theoretical background of noun phrase, premodification of noun phrase, closed-system pre-modification and its element
(definition, type, structure, using ways) relating to “possessive determiners”
in English.
Chapter II is designed to provide the knowledge about “English
possessive determiners”. It is the main part of my study, so my focus is
studying on possessive determiners in English.
Chapter III, entitled “English possessive determiners in comparison
with Vietnamese possessive determiners” analyzes the similarities and
differences. In addition, I mention common mistakes made by Vietnamese
learners and some suggestions in order to help learners understand them when
using English possessive determiners and some solutions are suggested.
 Part three is Conclusion summarizing the main points of the
study.