心理动词与英语典型使役化结构被引量：28

Psych Verbs and the Canonical Causative Configuration in English

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摘要词汇使役用法和句法使动结构是英语里并行的两种使役化结构,但是孰为典型的使役化形式还没有专门的研究。对此问题的研究不仅可以澄清语言事实,而且对英语教学有指导意义。我们以解释词汇和句法使役结构差异的直接约束为理论,选择词汇使役动词的一个子类———心理使役动词,通过小说语料库数据证明词汇使役用法是英语典型的使役化结构:心理使役动词在语义上与makeExpV ed结构同义,但却表达不同的因果关系;由于其直接约束有先发占领的作用,makeExpV ed结构在英语本族语人的实际语言产出中仅以间接因果关系的表征而出现。 Lexical and periphrastic causatives are two productive causativization patterns in English, but which represents the canonical configuration has not been studied to the author's best knowledge. Such a study would not only reveal linguistic facts, but bear pedagogic significance. Causative psych verbs are synonymous with the periphrastic 'make Exp V-ed' construction, but they each express a different kind of causation. Upon the analysis of data from a special corpus, we found that lexical causative is the canonical causative configuration in English and its 'make construction' equivalent never shows up in native speakers' production except as representations of mediated causation.

作者张京鱼

机构地区陕西师范大学外语学院

出处《四川外语学院学报》 2004年第5期97-101,共5页 Journal of Sichuan International Studies University

关键词心理动词词汇使役用法使动句直接约束 psych verbs lexical causatives 'make construction' direct constraint

分类号 H713 [语言文字]

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