The Marking Pattern, Typological Features and Development of Affirmative Determinative Sentences

This article makes a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 60 languages from the perspective of linguistic typology to discover the marking pattern and power distribution of the affirmative determinative sentence and obtains the corresponding predominance sequence: copula47 > mood marker 6 > particle 2= pronoun 2= pronominalization 2 > adjective 1. It indicates that copula occupies a dominant position. From the perspective of the word order typology, it is found the word order of the affirmative determinative sentence is basically in harmony with the conventional word order of the language, and the markers usually act on the declarative items. From the perspective of the internal correlation and development of the determinative marking system, there are three kinds of alignment or cooperative relations between the affirmative determinative markers, and the third person pronoun also has five special manifestations, which indicates that the markers are not isolated, but systematic, and the marking system is in the process of change and development.