An analysis on the “V1OV2”structures in SanGuoZhi

Abstract

All the “V1OV2” structures have the semantic relationship of “actionresult” and the syntactic relationship of “action before-result after” in SanGuoZhi. These semantic and syntactic relationships meet the syntactic and semantic requirements of Complement Grammaticalization. However, due to the different collocation relationship between “V1” and “V2”, the different semantic characteristics of “V2”, the different relationship between “V2” and “O”, the grammaticalization approaches of “V1OVt”, “V1OVi” and “V1OVz” structures are also different.BR The structure of “V1OVt” is not very mature, which can be seen as a kind of Narrative-Structure or Object-Anaphora-Structure. Its grammaticalization focuses on the development of “Vt” from transitive verb to intransitive verb. The involvement of a large number of inserted components also indicates that the “V1OVi” and the “V1OVz” structure are not yet mature. Under such grammatical environments as the gradual disappearance of causative usage，the development trend of Chinese disyllabic and mass occurrence of non-motivated “VCO” structure, “V1” and “Vi” in the “V1OVi” structure and “V1” and “Vz” in the “V1OVz” structure gradually condensed into a whole, with the object “O” together. Its grammaticalization focuses on the development and change of “Vi” and “Vz” from real meaning to result meaning.