形式主义框架下的语法化研究——以英语助动词do为例  

A Formal Approach to Grammaticalization:Taking English auxiliary do for example

作　　者：陈旭传[1] 韩景泉[1] 

机构地区：[1]中南大学外国语学院,湖南410075

出　　处：《外国语》2009年第4期18-25,共8页Journal of Foreign Languages

基　　金：上海外国语大学青年科研项目(编号:kx18/002);上海市优秀青年教师科研专项基金(编号:YQ052013)资助;国家社会科学基金资助项目(批准号:05BYY036)资助;刘爱英副教授主持湖南省社会科学基金项目"语法化现象的形式主义研究"(06YB54)的部分研究成果

摘　　要：语法化一向作为功能学派的研究热点,被看作一种由功能或经验驱动并产生语法的途径,对形式学派的语法自主说构成严峻的挑战。本文以英语助动词do的语法化过程为例,对语法化现象进行形式主义的研究,旨在论证语法化现象只是功能中心语特征在表征形式上发生变化时所引发的词汇重析,属于具体语言的参数范畴,由于受语言习得者内在保守性影响,该过程包含结构简化。并且,结构变化先于相关语义变化的发生,且独立于其他系统而存在。本文认为形式主义的研究方法对解释语法化的机制更为深入、直观,能更有效地揭示语法本质。Grammaticalization, a popular topic in the study of functional linguistics, has long been deemed as a way, motivated by function or experience, of creating grammar. Such a view poses a serious challenge to the claim of formal linguistics that language is an autonomous system. This paper, taking English auxiliary do for example, discusses the phenomenon of grammaticalization from a formal approach, attempting to show that grammaticalization belongs to the parametric category of particular languages and that it is just a process of lexical reanalysis caused by the change of morphophonologieal realization of functional features. It is argued that the process of grammaticalization, affected by the built-in conservative nature of the learner, involves structural simplification, and that the change of the structure is prior to the relevant semantic change and independent from other systems. The result shows that the formal approach is more expressive in accounting for the mechanism of grammaticalization and can explain the nature of grammar more effectively.

关 键 词：语法化 形式主义 DO 

分 类 号：H314[语言文字—英语]