论英语过去分词形容词的语用制约  

Pragmatic constraints on English adjectival past participles

作　　者：成善祯[1] 

机构地区：[1]江苏大学外国语学院,江苏镇江市212003

出　　处：《外语教学与研究》2002年第6期444-449,共6页Foreign Language Teaching and Research

摘　　要：英语中形容词性过去分词 (简称APP)作前置修饰语问题 ,虽已受到广泛关注 ,但对其研究不够深入。本文试图运用Levinson的信息原则、Horn的非冗余信息原则、事物摹本语义信息等语义语用学理论及其研究成果 ,通过实例分析、比较 ;揭示决定APP可接受性的种种语用制约机制 :(1 )APP必须表述名词中心词所指事物的某种状态 ;(2 )APP的语义内容必须有别于名词中心词的摹本语义信息 ;(3 )APP提供的必须是名词中心词所指事物摹本语义信息之外的新信息。Certain distributions of deverbal adjectives based on past participles and used attributively, though widely recognized, have not been sufficiently explained. This paper seeks to elucidate the problem by providing illustrations and analyses of the essential roles played by head nouns which always exercise some pragmatic and semantic constraints on APP:(a) APP must designate a state of HN, (b) semantics of APP must not be identical with the frame semantics of HN, and (c) APP must offer new information beyond that of HN.

关 键 词：英语 形容词性过去分词 前置修饰语 可接受性 语用制约 APP 

分 类 号：H314[语言文字—英语]