测断型比况结构的外部特征及句法功能

External Features and Syntactic Functions of Inferring Comparing Structures

测断是对事物的实际情况不能做出确定反映时所采取的一种猜测性判断方式,它是比况结构的三大表义类型之一,其基本格式是'仿佛/好像X似的';测断型比况结构只能由复句形式和谓词性短语构成,在复句中作分句,或者在单句中充当谓语和状语.

Inference is a kind of guessing about the uncertainty of some facts. As one of the three types of comparing structures expressing meanings, the basic form of the inferring comparing structure is ＂as if x＂. This kind of structure can only be formed by complex sentences or verbal phrases. It can act either as a clause in a complex sentence, as a predicate or an adverbial in a simple sentence.