Author(s)

Lin Deng

Corresponding Author

Lin Deng

Abstract

Existentials, which play an irreplaceable role in daily communication sentences, are a kind of special syntactic structure in both English and Chinese. Taking a cognitive perspective, this paper conducts a contrastive analysis of the existential sentences in terms of visual perception, mental perception and information encoding, in the hope of finding out the similarities and differences between them.

Keywords

Existential Sentence, Visual Perception, Mental Perception, Information Encoding