A Cognitive Study of Nominalization in Mandarin  

作　　者：LI Lin-ze YANG Ting 

机构地区：[1]College of International Studies,Southwest University,Chongqing,China [2]Chongqing College of Humanities,Science&Technology,Chongqing,China

出　　处：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》2020年第9期835-847,共13页文学与艺术研究（英文版）

摘　　要：Cognitive grammar does not differentiate nominalizations belonging to the syntax or in the lexicon.From the perspective of cognitive construal,nominalizations of verbs and adjectives involvethe alternate profiling of certain aspects of relationships while the nominalizations of structures and sentences are motivated by the conceptual packaging of events as entities on a larger scale.A new notion,ontologicalization,is introduced into the study as the cognitive mechanism underlying nominalizations on all levels.It is shown that nominalizations are not only pervasive but also theoretically significant in Mandarin,ranging from lexis to sentences.Nominalizations may take two different forms:affix-derivation and zero-derivation.de(的)is an important nominalizer in Mandarin in that it functions as a suffix as well as an infix with words,structures and sentences.

关 键 词：NOMINALIZATION CONSTRUAL ontologicalization MANDARIN de(的) 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]