英语情态动词may的情境植入功能研究  

A Study of the Grounding Function of Modal Verb May in English

作　　者：牛保义[1] 

机构地区：[1]河南大学外语学院,河南开封475001

出　　处：《外国语》2017年第3期12-22,共11页Journal of Foreign Languages

基　　金：国家社科基金项目"名词指称义的情景植入理论研究"(13BYY002)的部分成果

摘　　要：本文在认知语法情境植入理论框架内,基于对英语情态动词may的大量实际用例的考察,建立了情态动词may的情境植入功能分析模型。本文发现,情态动词may作为一种情境植入成分,给句子凸显的过程演变,植入了一种判断力、推测力、想象力等。在这一认知动力的作用下,句子凸显的过程演变为不同程度的未然的可能过程,即有较大、一般和较小可能性成为现实的过程。本文认为,造成这些差异的动因主要是情态动词may植入的认知动力,与概念化者做出判断、推测、想象等情感认知活动有关。The current study, based on the observation of the uses of modal verb may in English, establishes an ana- lytical model for the grounding function of modal verb may, within the framework of grounding theory in Cognitive Grammar. The author proposes that modal verb may, as a grounding element, imposes a momentum of assumption, prediction, imagination, etc. for the evolution of the process profiled by the may-sentence into a possible future-oriented process. It is observed that the reality possibility of the process profiled by the may-sentence varies from high, medial to low possibilities. The variation is motivated mainly by the cognitive momentum of may, and related to the conceptuali- zer＇s modality of assumption, prediction and imagination.

关 键 词：情态动词may 情境植入 认知动力 现实 可能性 

分 类 号：H314[语言文字—英语]