英语情态动词must的语法化和去语法化认知阐释  

A cognitive approach to the grammaticalization and degrammaticalization of the English modal must

作　　者：邵斌[1,2] 王文斌[3] 

机构地区：[1]浙江大学 [2]浙江财经学院 [3]宁波大学

出　　处：《现代外语》2012年第2期134-141,218,共8页Modern Foreign Languages

基　　金：教育部人文社会科学研究一般项目"基于语料库的英语新词认知语义研究"(编号:11YJC740085)的阶段性成果

摘　　要：英语情态动词must的语义和使用频率早已引起学界的高度关注,但关于其句法功能的演化及其类词缀化倾向,学界却乏人问津。本文以英国国家语料库、当代美国英语语料库和历时美国英语语料库作为语言数据来源,探寻作为情态动词的must向作为名词的must和"must-verb"构式演进的辙迹。本文认为,前者属于"去语法化"演变,后者则属于"语法化"演变,这对看似矛盾的语言蜕嬗反映了人类在认识客观事物时,"范畴化"、"去范畴化"和"再范畴化"认知机制的不断转化过程。The semantics and frequency of the English modal must have received a great deal of attention in linguistic studies,but little research has been done on the evolution of its syntactic functions and tendency towards quasi-affixization.On the basis of the data extracted from British National Corpus,Corpus of Contemporary American English and Corpus of Historical American English,this study probes into the syntactic changes of must as a modal verb to must as a noun and the must-verb construction.The former change is considered degrammaticalization,the latter grammaticalization.These changes reflect the continual transformation of the cognitive mechanisms involved in the human cognition of the world:categorization,decategorization and recategorization.

关 键 词：情态动词MUST 语料库 语法化 去语法化 去范畴化 

分 类 号：H030[语言文字—语言学]