英语否定后缀-less和-free语义探析  

A Tentative Semantic Analysis of English Negative Suffixes:-less and-free

作　　者：程焕福[1] 

机构地区：[1]仰恩大学外国语学院,福建泉州362014

出　　处：《广东工业大学学报（社会科学版）》2013年第6期88-92,105-106,共5页Journal of Guangdong University of Technology(Social Sciences Edition)

摘　　要：在对英语否定前缀的已有研究进行梳理之后,用语料库语言学研究方法,在线搜索"美国当代英语语料库(COCA)"里以-less或-free为否定词尾的形容词,观察其频率和分布情况,试图归纳这两种带否定后缀的形容词的语义生成机制以及该两个否定后缀共享同一词基所派生出的形容词的语义区别。结果发现,该两个后缀都只能与名词组合,且对其所依附的名词具有典型的语义选择限制。为验证"名词+less/free"生成规则的有效性和能产性,用Google在线搜索Internet语义受-less/free限制的名词组合的形容词,结果为合法有效,进而窥探人类思维活动的规律性。After reviewing the studies on English negative prefixes and on the basis of The Corpus of Contemporary American English( COCA),this paper mainly researches online adjectives with either '-less 'or '-free'as suffixes to induce the derivative mechanism and to explore the distinct meanings of the derived ad-jectives sharing both suffixes. Findings show that the two suffixes are attached to nouns alone and semantic restrictions are imposed on the nouns. Some rare linguistic data are googled on the Internet to verify the validity and productivity of the suffixes by deducing the word-formation rule,which can be a reflection of human thinking style.

关 键 词：否定后缀 生成机制 语义限制 语义区别 

分 类 号：H030[语言文字—语言学]