Functional features of word order in Russian and Chinses languages

Yang Li

In this article constituent order in Russian and Chinses is compared from syntactical, semantic and pragmatic perspective. The present paper proposes three kinds of constituent order. They are grammatical, semantic and pragmatic ones. The author compares the semantic constituent order in Chinese and Russian and points out some principles.

Keywords:comparative study of Chinese and Russian languages; constituent order; semantic meaning, translation