현대중국어 ‘SVN1QMN2’ 구문의 유형 및 초래의미 분석

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate and classify SVN1QMN2 as a causative structure into different grammatical types, and based on the classifications, each type will be analyzed respectively with its functions in the process of semantic construction and the syntax-semantic realization pattern among the grammatical structures. However, all the grammatical types share the same structure, but each of them maintains various semantic interpretations. Accordingly, there could exist a certain mechanism which enables the structure to be grammaticalized. Thus, this paper may draw some possible conclusions as the following:BR The causative SVN1QMN2 structure can be categorized as direct causes and indirect ones. Under each category, there is an extended sequence which is “directly causatives——indirectly causatives——resultative causatives”.BR There are numerous differences between the calculative structure and the beneficial structure. However, both the structures are subordinates of SVN1QMN2 structure. The conceptualization process can be seen as the fundamental reason for semantic variations. Furthermore, the Economic Principle of language requires that similar events should be expressed in the same pattern. This also verifies that the meaning of a sentence is not the truth condition of the sentence itself, but the conceptualization process related to the sentence.BR The original function of SVN1QMN2 structure is causative, and this causative function is the major cause which allows an agent and its patient to switch their structural positions. In the integrated space, the causative structure determines that the agent should be placed at the position where the causal patient can be located. In short, the theory of conceptual integration can offer the scientifical explanations towards the causative structure.