A Contrastive Study of the Stative Feature in English

Compared with Chinese, English language is characterized by the features of, namely, hypotactic, impersonal, passive, stative, abstract, substitutive, and so forth. These traits are interrelated and interact on each other. By means of contrastive analysis, the current paper represents an attempt to discuss the preponderance of stative expressions in English, their philosophical background, representations in various forms and implications in English writing and translation.