The Classification of V-A Resultative Construction and the Analysis of its Grammatical Blending

Abstract

In this paper, through the investigation and analysis of the structure and semantic features of V-A Resultative Constructions(VA動結式) in Modern Chinese(such as "打碎" "洗乾淨" etc). The structure is re-divided into two types of which is the prototype ‘NP1+V+R(A)+NP2’ and for the variable-type is ‘NP+V+R(A)’. Then use the grammatical blending theory to analyze the formation mechanism of V-A Resultative Construction. As a result, the following conclusions are drawn: First, the essence of the V-A Resultative Construction formula is a causative meaning. Both events are causative, which the construction is composed of causing events and resulting events. Second, self-variable meaning(自變義) is a variant of agent causative meaning(施事類致使義). When the causer of the causing events and the receiver of the resultant event are unified in the imaginary space, and the verb is intransitive, a self-variable semantic V-A Resultative Construction is obtained, and vice versa, the action behavior is verb-object Structure, it will be defined as the type of agent causative meaning(施事類致使義). Third, deviating meaning(The result is different from what humans expect) and non-deviating meaning(The results are independent of human expectations) are two different categories. Although they have no ‘Object’ in terms of syntactic structure, in fact the internal semantic generation mechanism is different. And to draw the following conclusion, Grammatical blending provides a new perspective of innovative thinking for the research on the construction of V-A Resultative Construction.