“及其”中“其”的化石化过程

The fossilization of"其" in"及其

“及其”中的“其”原本主要回指前面的语法单位 ,起到连贯前后并列项 ,使后一并列项从形式上由无定到有定 ,由泛指 ( generic)到专指 (specific)的作用。但是 ,一定的语境 ,使得“其”的回指变得可有可无 ,或因汉语的省略定势与节律阻止回指说 ,直至不能说有。由有回指到可有可无 ,到不好说有 ,到没有回指的过程 ,就是“其”的化石化 (fossilization)过程。

The '其' in '及其' mainly refers to an antecedent,and takes the effect that a front coordinated unit coheres with back one in a sentence and makes the form of the back one change from indefinite to definite or from generic to specific. but in certain context the reference of 其 does not seem essential,or it is hard to say that 其 has the effect of reference,at last 其 has not the one because of the feature of ellipise in Chinese,as is the process of its fossilization.