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從格式概念的角度檢視把/被…得字句結果語意的呈現 / BA/BEI…DE Constructions as a Family of Resultative Constructions:A Constructional-Conceptual Perspective

單獨的「把」或「被」字本身並沒有言明「使動」語意,但是一旦加上「得」結果補語,就會帶出「使動結果」語意;是故,我們認為「把/被…得」字句是「結果格式」(resultative construction)。本文以「格式語法」(Construction Grammar)的觀點為基礎,分析「把/被…得」字句。本文提出在「把/被…得」字句出現的動詞不侷限於「處置式」動詞 (disposal verbs);「使動結果」語意是格式和動詞之語意互動的結果。另外,本文也提出「把…得」字句和「被…得」字句均屬於「結果格式」的家族成員,因為這兩個字句包含許多共同的語意特性;例如,兩個字句都包含兩個小事件 (subevent),一個是動詞事件 (verbal subevent),另一個則是格式事件 (constructional subevent),而動詞事件是促使格式事件發生的媒介 (means)。又格式事件通常決定了「把/被…得」字句整句的時態。最後,本文再透過Jackendoff的概念結構 (conceptual structure),將「把/被…得」字句予以分解成更細部的語意單位,藉此更進一步了解「把/被…得」字句語意的構成。 / The use of ba/bei alone does not imply causative meanings; however, when a de result complement is added to ba/bei constructions, the causative sense will arise concomitantly with resultivity. Therefore, ba/bei…de in the sentences, two discontinous morphemes locking together, mark the whole construction as a resultative construction.

By adopting constructional approaches, we show that ba/bei…de resultatives are not limited to disposal verbs and they are made of a family of resultative constructions. Without the inherent disposal property and the causative meaning, stative, perception, and psychological verbs are still compatible with ba/bei…de resultatives. The causative-resultative meaning comes from the integration among all the components of the construction, both structurally and semantically. Also, under such a constructional approach, we will find that many semantic properties of ba/bei…de resultatives can be predicted from their meaning structures: a resultative sentence contains a constructional subevent and a verbal subevent, and this verbal subevent serves as the means by which the constructional subevent takes place. As for their temporal relation, the verbal subevent may be cotemporal with the constructional subevent, or may overlap with it, or may entirely precede it, depending on the pragmatics of the situation. And the end-boundedness of the constructional subevent correlates with the telicity of a resultative construction.

And with some modifications of Jackendoff’s conceptual structure, we discern how a resultative concept is characterized in the human mental representation. In terms of a set of primitives, we can easily detect that ba/bei…de constructions are made of two separable subevents, and that the verbal subevent is temporally prior to the constructional subevent.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:CHENGCHI/G0915550131
Creators馮美齡
Publisher國立政治大學
Source SetsNational Chengchi University Libraries
Language英文
Detected LanguageEnglish
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