同根ABB式状态形容词及其量级考察

An investigation of statal adjectives of the ABB pattern and their gradability

同根ABB式状态形容词,在相同的情况下具有程度意义上的不同,意义上的不同制约着它们句法功能的不同。本文分别从A和BB之间是否具有意义联系、ABB是否具有变换形式、BB变调与否、使用频率的高低等四个方面进行了考察,发现凡是满足以上条件的,其程度量级就高,未能满足这些条件的,程度量级就低。

Under the same circumstances, the statal adjectives of the ABB pattern are different in degree and their syntactic functions are conditioned by difference in meaning. The paper made an investigation of this kind of adjectives from four different aspects: 1) whether A and BB are semantically related to each other; 2) whether the ABB pattern has any variant forms; 3) whether BB changes its tone in pronunciation; and 4) the frequency of occurrence. It is found that degree of gradability depends on whether the adjective of this pattern meets the above conditions, i.e., it rises if the adjective meets the condition, otherwise, it tend to fall.