英语冠名构式(Article+N)中冠词的认知语义和句法特征  

A Cognitive Approach to the Semantic and Syntactic Structures of English Articles in Article + N Constructions

作　　者：曾国才[1] 

机构地区：[1]四川大学外国语学院,四川成都610064

出　　处：《外语教学》2014年第1期12-16,共5页Foreign Language Education

摘　　要：传统语法研究范式只归纳了冠词的句法使用环境。认知语法认为语言是以使用为基础的模型;意义即概念化;语言的词汇、句法结构和语义是一个象征结构的连续统。在认知语法框架下,冠词的语义功能主要表现在对与之搭配的名词性词语进行定位和量化。冠词的句法结构和冠词的语义概念呈数量象似性特征。冠词的语义概念是依存性的,体现在句法结构上即为冠词与名词的紧密共现关系。冠名构式的构式义不是句法组合而来,而是冠词与名词整合的结果。冠词的认知语法描写丰富了认知语法的理论应用。对冠词的语义和句法结构描写可提高英语冠词的二语习得效率。Traditional paradigms of grammatical analysis of English articles merely summarize the use conditions of articles on the syntactic level. By contrast, the generalizations of the semantic and syntactic structures of English articles can be captured by a cognitive grammar approach, whose linguistic assumption is based on the usage-based language model. Cognitive grammar claims that meaning is conceptualization, and that lexicon, syntax and semantics form a continuum of symbolic structures. From the perspective of cognitive grammar, articles in Article ＋ N constructions function as the grounding and quantification of the nominals. Syntactically, the increased morphological complexity of the article is an icon of the increased semantic content of the article. Since articles are conceptually dependent, they inherently co-occur with the nominals on the syntactical level. The meaning of Article ＋ N is not the combination of an article and a nominal, but the conceptual integration of the article and the nominal. A cognitive grammar approach to English articles widens the application of cognitive grammar theory and is expec- ted to improve the acquisition of English articles.

关 键 词：冠词 认知语法 名词性词语 构式中国 

分 类 号：H314.3[语言文字—英语] H030