试论事件语义学的研究方法

An Approach to Development of Event Semantics

本文着重介绍和分析如何应用形式描写来开展事件语义学研究的方法。这一研究路子主要经历了从戴维森分析法到新戴维森分析法的发展。本文对这两个阶段的研究特点进行了分析，其中着重讨论了新戴维森分析法的改进之处。本文的最后部分应用新戴维森分析法对部分汉语歧义句式进行语义分析，旨在说明利用这一分析法对所分析句式的语义进行描写相对于以往有可能做到更加规范和精确。

This paper focuses on the study of event semantics in terms of the formal approach,which has experienced its development from the earliest stage,advocated by Donald Davidson, thus known as the Davidsonian analysis, to the currem period of Neo-Davidsonian analysis. More attention is contributed to the latter one, particularly Rothstein＇ s predication theory, since the details of its improved features are emphatically elaborated. By adopting the Neo-Davidsonian analysis, the paper ends with the semantic description of certain selected ambiguous coustructious in Mandarin Chinese, in an attempt to highlight the practical availability of this analysis in dealing with the Chinese language data.