동사 ‘殺’의 상적 자질에 관한 소고

Abstract

Accomplishment verbs have unique aspectual feature than other verbs, i.e. state verbs, activity verbs, and achievements verb are generally determined by their own verb aspectual qualities, but accomplishment verbs must also consider object noun phrase, because it serve as a termination point or telic. In this paper, we examined the aspectual feature of the Chinese verb ‘sha (殺)’. Since ‘sha’ and ‘chi (吃)’ in SVO sentence do not necessarily involve the result, so there is no problem even if the additional clause ‘keshimei VR (可是沒VR)’ follows it. However, in the case of ‘Ba-NPV-le (把-NPV-了)’ is a little bit different, because the Ba-construction (把字句) itself requires the result element. Thus, ‘le3 (了₁)’ after ‘chi (吃)’ showed a clear result in ‘Ba-NPV-le (把-NPV-了)’, the result of implication of ‘sha implied in ‘Ba-NPV-le (把-NPV-了)’ isn’t that much clear. The reason is ‘sha (殺)’ was used as achievement verb in ancient times, and it changed into accomplishment verb since the modern period. In short, ‘sha (殺)’ is still a typical accomplishment verb, even though it implies results or completion, but can not express result meanings independently. And further research is needed on the verb in the future in order to understand more clearly the Chinese aspect system.