基于语料库的X-er名词构式研究

Study on X-er noun constructions based on the corpus

本文以美国当代英语语料库为平台,对X-er名词构式中词基X的词性和该构式的指称范围进行考察。语料证明:当词基X既可以做N又可以做V时,将其识解为V-er图示更合理;X-er名词构式的原型指称对象为人类施事者。

This paper use COCA as a platform to investigate the construction of X-er nominals,including the part of speech of X and its referent.The result shows that it is more reasonable to construe X-er construction into V-er schema instead of N-er scheme and its prototypical referent is agent.