《汉语系词构式的形式和功能/外教社博学文库》以构式语法和构式化为基础理论框架,对汉语系词“是”及其相关构式的共时结构功能和历时发展进行全面深入的分析研究,从理论和实践两个方面证实了该理论框架和研究方法对分析解释汉语语料的可行性和有效性。《汉语系词构式的形式和功能/外教社博学文库》将国际上新兴的语言学理论运用于汉语研究,从全新的角度来审视和解释长期困扰汉语学界的问题。《汉语系词构式的形式和功能/外教社博学文库》的读者对象为世界各国研究语言学理论或对《汉语系词构式的形式和功能/外教社博学文库》涉及领域感兴趣的学者、研究汉语的专家和学者以及对本国语言研究有兴趣的学生和社会人士。
詹芳琼,华东师范大学对外汉语学院讲师。2012年毕业于美国斯坦福大学,获汉语语言学方向博士学位。研究方向为认知语言学、构式语法、历史语言学,已在Studies in Language、Language and Lingusitics等国际核心期刊发表多篇论文。
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前言
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 The construction shi in Modern Chinese
1.1.1 “Right, okay, or fine”
1.1.2 Demonstrative pronoun
1.1.3 Existential
1.1.4 Copulative linking
1.1.5 “Focus marker”
1.1.6 Bound morpheme
1.1.7 Some questions about shi
1.2 An overview of the literature on shi
1.2.1 The grammatical category of shi
1.2.2 The origin of the copula shi
1.2.3 The previous research on Chinese cleft sentences
1.2.4 The development of the Chinese cleft
1.3 Data and methodology
1.4 An outline of the structure of the thesis
2 CONSTRUCTION GRAMMAR AND CONSTRUCTIONALIZATION
2.1 Construction Grammar
2.1.1 Construction grammar as opposed to modular models
2.1.2 Three major constructional approaches
2.1.3 Some relevant concepts of Construction Grammar
2.1.3.1 Taxonomy and inheritance
2.1.3.2 Coercion
2.1.3.3 Usage-based model
2.2 Constructionalization
2.2.1 Two approaches to grammaticalization
2.2.2 Motivation: analogy and ' invited inference'
2.2.2.1 Analogy
2.2.2.2 Invited inferencing
2.2.3 Mechanisms: reanalysis, analogization and subjectification
2.2.3.1 Reanalysis
2.2.3.2 Analogization
2.2.4 Constructional taxonomies
2.2.5 Constructionalization dimensions
2.2.6 Constructionalization and constructional changes
2.3 Summary
3 A COPULA ANALY818 OF shi IN THE CHINESE CLEFT CONSTRUCTION
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The syntactic concept of “copula”
3.3 The semantics of copula
3.4 The constructional framework
3.5 The concept of cleft
3.5.1 The cleft construction
3.5.2 An adverb analysis of shi in the so-called shi cleft sentence
3.5.3 My analysis of Chinese cleft sentences
3.6 Conclusion
4 THE CONSTRUCTIONALIZATION OF shi:FROM A DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN TO A COPULA
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Previous research on shi
4.3 The development of shi
4.3.1 A syntactic analysis of the classical copula sentence (CCS) in Old Chinese
4.3.2 The constructionalizatin of the copula
4.3.2.1 The semantic relatedness between the demonstrative pronoun and the copula
4.3.2.2 The enabling context
4.3.2.3 The mechanism of the constructionalization of shi
4.3.3 Statistical evidence for constructionalization of shi and further expansion
4.3.3.1 The increase of adverbs preceding shi
4.3.3.2 The decrease of sentence final particles
4.3.3.3 The decrease of the complex topic
4.3.3.4 The increase of [ NP COP NP]
4.3.3.5 The competition between shi and wei
4.4 Typology and Conclusion
5 THE CONSTRUCTIONALIZATION OF THE CLEFT CONSTRUCTION
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The emergence of the cleft construction
5.2.1 Shi: the copula in early Middle Chinese (200 CE-600 CE)
5.2.2 Nominalization [ XP de] : in late Middle Chinese (700 CE-1000 CE)
5.2.3 The emergence of the cleft construction
5.2.3.1 The emergence of [NP COP NOM] (NOM=XP de)
5.2.3.2 The emergence of the cleft construction
5.2.3.3 The emergence of the cleft-sbj
5.3 Constructionalization
5.3.1 Motivation: Analogy and pragmatic inferencing
5.3.2 Mechanism: Analogization and Reanalysis
5.3.3 Conventionalization : Frequency
5.3.4 Generality, productivity and compositionality
5.4 Conclusion
6 THE CONSTRUCTIONALIZATION OF A SET OF CONNECTIVES IN CHINESE
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Shi as the bound morpheme
6.3 The set of constructionalized connectives
6.3.1 Keshi 'but'
6.3.2 Haishi 'or'
6.3.3 Jiushi 'even if'
6.3.4 Yaoshi 'if'
6.4 Constructionalization dimensions
6.5 The motivations and mechanisms of the change
6.5.1 Motivations: invited inferencing and analogy thinking
6.5.2 Mechanisms : reanalysis, analogization and subjectification
6.5.2.1 Reanalysis
6.5.2.2 Analogization
6.5.2.3 Subjectification
6.5.3 Frequency
6.6 Conclusion
7 CONCLUSION
7.1 Summery of the thesis
7.2 Thoughts on future study
7.2.1 Relativization and nominalization
7.2.2 The development of contrastive focus
7.3 Summary
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