英语动结构式的甄别和历史源考  

On the Identification of English Resultative Construction and Its Diachrony

作　　者：张国华[1] 

机构地区：[1]中南财经政法大学外国语学院,湖北武汉430073

出　　处：《外国语文》2016年第2期93-105,共13页Foreign Languages and Literature

基　　金：国家社会科学基金项目"汉;英双宾结构的构式化和语义表达专门化进程语料库比较研究"(15BYY013)的研究成果之一

摘　　要：研究确定英语动结构式的区别性特征,对其历史源流和发展脉络进行梳理,发现力的施受关系是贯穿其发展的核心语义特征。典型SVOC/A.结构表达S以V施力O并致其发生状态变化C,C由形容词性的A表示,排除语用限制,可释为"O BECOME A[as a result of S’V-ing(of it)]"。古英语时SVOC/A.初具规模,接纳少数动作动词和A,但A有时词性两可,中古英语时期,V和A数量猛增,A以形容词为主,词序日趋稳固,非典型动词和宾语出现,至早期现代英语时已臻成熟。The present study identifies the distinctive features of English Resultative Construction and probes into its origin and diachrony with a discovery that having force dynamics has been a constant core semantic feature of the construction.The form SVOC/ A.is used to express that S exerts force upon O by acting indicated by V and consequently causes the latter to experience a change in state,i. e. C indicated by an adjectival element A. With pragmatic conditions excluded,the construction can be paraphrased as and tested with‘O BECOME A [as a result of S＇V-ing（ of it） ]＇. It is found out that SVOC/ A.takes shape in OE period with the accommodation of a couple of action verbs and A elements,while A sometimes can be treated as both adjective and adverb; both V and A increase in number sharply in ME period when A becomes dominantly adjectives and the word order of the construction becomes increasingly stablised and atypical verbs and objects make their appearance; the construction reaches its maturity as early as in EMod E period.

关 键 词：动结构式 区别性特征 发展脉络 

分 类 号：H313[语言文字—英语]