“当”的语法化

"当"的语法化过程经历了"助动词—副词—连词"的发展路径和演变模式。在其语法化过程中,句法、语义、语用等因素均起着重要作用。就情态范畴而言,"当"是沿着"动力--道义--认识"的路线发展的,从语义机制来看,"当"从动词到助动词是隐喻在发挥作用,而从动力情态到道义情态、从道义情态到认识情态都是转喻在发挥作用。

As a Verb in ancient Chinese, 'Dang(当)' has been through the way of grammaticalization:auxiliary -adverb-conjunction. During the course the factors of syntactics,semantics and pragmantics played an important roles。From the modality, 'Dang(当)' has been through the way of the development:dynamic modality-deontic modality-epistemic modality. From verb to auxiliary verb,metaphor played an important roles,meanwhile,metonymy also played an important roles from dynamic modality to deontic modality,then to epistemi...