Analysis of Verb-result Complement Acquisition and Errors in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language

Abstract

Verb-result complement refers to grammatical phenomenon of Chinese verb plus the results, which is often appear in the spoken language and regulations. Moreover, verb-result complement is also one of the important grammatical points in the elementary to intermediate stage of teaching Chinese as a foreign language. In this paper, literature review, corpus analysis and data statistics are used to make a brief review of the current research on the verb-result complement in the academic circle,including the research on the modern Chinese verb-result complement grammar, as well as the study on the acquisition error of verb-result complement in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. In addition, through the statistical analysis of the errors by international students in HSK dynamic composition corpus and relevant books, and the errors in teaching practice, the errors of Chinese verb-result complement by international students are summarized, which can be mainly divided into three categories:incomplete components, redundant components, and improper word order.