地点介词短语的时间变体功能

Temporal Variation Function of Prepositional Phrases

横向空间与线性时间是时空映射的认知基础,因此时空对应归因于横向空间和线性时间的维度趋同。在词汇语法体现方面,地点环境具有荷载时间意义的词汇语法功能,其制约条件是地点介词短语为环境成分,而非修饰成分。语言实例分析表明:时空对应的词汇语法特点体现在线点、线段和线序的认知映射过程之中。

The dimensional similarity between horizontal space and linear time provides a cognitive basis for spatio-temporal mapping. The lexico-grammatical function that gives a locative phrase a temporal interpretation, however, rests on the restriction that the prepositional phrase of place be a circumstantial constituent, but not a modifier. Analysis of linguistic data indicates that lexico-grammatical features of spatio-temporal parallelism reflect in the process of cognitive mapping for linear point, linear segment and linear order.