事件结构与英语语态  

Eventuality and English Voice System

作　　者：谢国平[1] 

机构地区：[1]广东财经大学外国语学院,广东广州510320

出　　处：《浙江外国语学院学报》2014年第1期9-14,共6页Journal of Zhejiang International Studies University

摘　　要：利用事件结构和轻动词理论审视表示不同事件意义的谓语构造,理论上可以取消语态范畴。所谓主动、被动和中动语态其实是不同事件结构的体现形式。主动结构表达简单动作事件,其谓语构造为[vPDO[VP...V...]]。被动结构既体现简单的状态意义,又包含动态的状态变化,其谓语构造为[vPBE[vPBECOME[VP...V...]]]。中动结构表使役性事件,其谓语构造为[vPCAUSE[vPBECOME[VP...V...]]]。中动结构体现的事件结构最复杂,既体现因果关系,也包含状态变化。From the perspective of eventuality and the light verb theory, English voice, as a grammatical category ,holds no foot in grammar.The so-called different English voices are actually the realizations of vari- ous eventualities. The predicates of active sentences signify simple eventualities syntactically realized as [veDO [vp...V...] ].Predicates of passive sentences signify complex eventualities structured as [vp BE [ vp BECOME [ vp...V... ] ]] indicating a state plus a changing process.Predicates of middle sentences have the structure [ vpCAUSE [ vp BECOME [ vp...V... ] ] ] indicating a most complicated eventuality--a cause plus a result.In whatever predicates, the lexical verb enters syntactic computation as a root without a fixed argument structure.h is the various light verbs that help the verb root to define the eventuality structure of the predicates.

关 键 词：事件结构 谓语构造 轻动词 英语语态 

分 类 号：H314.3[语言文字—英语]