基于语料库的中英文非词语化研究

论文摘要

非词语化是普遍存在的语言现象,使用中的词语呈现着明显的非词语化趋势。本文首先回顾和评论非词语化相关文献,在此基础上提出了基于预料库进行研究的方案。基于真实的语言数据,在对“make”,和“做”,“进行”,“作出”,“scientific”,“illegal”和“科学”,“非法”的研究中,本文引用弗斯语言学的语境论思想和Sinclair提出的“意义共享”机制观察数据,概括意义和行为模式,并探讨非词语化趋势和程度。本研究表明,非词语化已经成为这些非词语化词的核心语义趋向和主要行为特征。有些词的语义内容几乎丧失殆尽,主要扮演着句法结构所要求的角色;另一些词则是部分地丧失原有的意义。除此,本文还从三个视角来解释非词语化现象:语法化,短语趋向和态度意义。非词语化与语法化关系密切:伴随着新语法结构的产生,特定词项不可避免地虚化或丧失原有的语义内容。但是,语法化机制可以解释非词语化现象的部分内容,但不是问题的全部。另一方面,词汇丧失原有语义,又从语境获取新的意义,并与有关词语组成大的短语单位——这些都是非词语化现象的内涵,是语言交际的成语原则和短语趋向所涵盖的丰富内容。本文还从一个侧面揭示了态度意义的重要性:表达态度意义是有关非词语化修饰语的重要语用动因。从语用的层面看,形容词修饰语不再对名词中心词进行修饰或限定,而是对中心词语义进行确认和强化,表达评判类的态度意义。

论文目录

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• CHINESE ABSTRACT
• ENGLISH ABSTRACT
• ABBREVIATIONS
• LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Research Background
• 1.2 Research Aims
• 1.3 Research Questions
• 1.4 Organization of the Thesis
• Chapter 2 A Critical Review of Previous Studies on Delexicalization
• 2.1 Light Verb
• 2.2 Heavy-duty Verb
• 2.3 Grammaticalization
• 2.4 Delexicalized Verbs and Adjectives
• 2.5 Summary
• Chapter 3 Research Methodology
• 3.1 The Corpora
• 3.2 Delexicalized Items to be Investigated
• 3.2.1 Delexicalized Items
• 3.2.2 Target Delexicalized Items
• 3.3 Research Tools
• 3.4 Defining Key Notions
• 3.4.1 Defining Colligation
• 3.4.2 Defining Collocation
• 3.5 Study Procedures
• Chapter 4 Results and Discussions of Delexicalized Verbs
• 4.1 The Delexicalized Verb in English –MAKE
• 4.1.1 Colligational Behavior of make
• 4.1.2 Usage Patterns of make
• 4.1.3 Collocational Study of make + （Det.） + N
• 4.1.4 Summary
• 4.2 Chinese Delexicalized verbs –做, 进行, 作出
• 4.2.1 Data of 做zuo
• 4.2.1.1 Nominal Expressions Associated with 做
• 4.2.1.2 Grammatical Variations of 做 Phrase
• 4.2.2 Data of 进行jinxing
• 4.2.3 Data of 作出zuochu
• 4.3 Summary
• Chapter 5 Results and Discussion of Delexicalized Adjectives
• 5.1 Overall Study of Delexicalized Adjectives
• 5.2 The English Delexicalized Adjectives –scientific and illegal
• 5.2.1 Delexicalized Adjective –scientific
• 5.2.1.1 Selective Function of scientific
• 5.2.1.2 Focusing Function of scientific
• 5.2.2 Delexicalized Adjective –illegal
• 5.2.2.1 Overall Frequency and Collocations
• 5.2.2.2 Selective Function of illegal
• 5.2.2.3 Focusing Function of illegal
• 5.3 Chinese Delexicalized Adjectives
• 5.3.1 Study of Chinese Delexicalized Adjective –科学
• 5.3.2 Chinese Delexicalized Adjective –非法
• Chapter 6 Interpretation
• 6.1 Grammaticalization
• 6.1.1 Overview of Grammaticalization Theories
• 6.1.2 Grammaticalization and Delexicalization
• 6.2 Phraseology
• 6.2.1 Terminological Tendency
• 6.2.2 Phraseological Tendency
• 6.2.2.1 Overview of Phraseology Theories
• 6.2.2.2 Phraseology and Delexicalization
• 6.3 Attitudinal Meaning
• 6.3.1 Overview of the Appraisal Theories
• 6.3.2 Semantic Intensification and Delexicalization
• 6.4 Summary
• Chapter 7 Conclusions and Implications
• 7.1 Conclusions
• 7.2 Implications
• 7.3 Limitations
• References
• Appendix I
• Appendix II
• Appendix III
• Appendix IV
• Appendix V
• Appendix VI