Abstract
This article has summed up the development sequence of the semantic elements of substantive objects in children’s language based upon the corpus collected from children’s language materials. The article holds that this sequence has not only resulted from the degree of recipienthood of the semantic role, but has also been controlled by other two rules: 1) The function of copulation of verbs and the time of appearance of the related verbs; 2) The extent of the cooperative relationship between the semantic role and the action involved. This article further points out that since the number and the type of the semantic roles of the object are closely related to certain verbs, top priority should be given to the consideration of verbs when we are talking about the matching of the objects and their semantic roles in Contemporary Chinese.
| Keywords: | children’s language; object; semantic elements; development; explanation |
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