英语重叠词与汉语联绵词的理据比较及象似性分析

Iconicity Analysis and Motivation Comparison between English Reduplicatives and Chinese Lianmianci

联绵词并不是汉语特有的现象,无论表层还是深层,它与英语重叠词存在惊人的相似点。这些相似点是由重叠动因促成的,而重叠动因是一组相互竞争相互合作的原则和规则。表层分析比较重叠的语音、形态、语义、文字理据,深层分析比较文化、审美和认知理据。象似性分析解释了英语重叠词和汉语联绵词家族相似性的根本机制。句法上的重叠偏爱可能是英汉两种语言差异的分水岭。对重叠词和联绵词的比较深化了各自的研究并揭示了人类语言的某些共性。

Lianmianci,or classical Chinese reduplicatives（Chinese disyllable words, often alliterated or rhymed）, is not unique to Chinese, which is eontrary to general views or assumptions. It shares strikingly similar features with English reduplicatives in motivation both of the top layer and of the bottom one. Reduplication in these type of words is motivated mainly by a set of principles and rules which are competitive and cooperative. Top-layer analysis and ecrnparison concentrate on the phonological,morphological,semantic and grammatological motivations, while bottom- layer analysis and eomparison focus on cultural, aesthetic and eognitive motivations, leonieity analysis reveals the final cause of cross- cultural family resemblance between lianmianci and English reduplicatives. Reduplication preferences on levels higher than lexis may be the watershed between English and Chinese. This comparison has deepened the respective research and helps to gain some enlightenment in terms of typological similarity.