事物形容词在定语和状语位置上的语义分析

Semantic Analysis of Thing Adjectives as Attribute and Adverbial

事物形容词作为形容词的一个小类,其主要句法功能是作定语,其语义特征是固定性和静止性;有时它也可作状语,但是往往要采用重叠形式或转变成带后加成分的形容词以后才能充任状语。这类重叠式形容词或具有能动意义,或表示伴随状态。无论作定语还是状语,事物形容词的语义总是指向人或事物。

Thing adjectives which is one of the type of adjectives describe properties of persons or objects. They are generally linked with the words that signify objects. Based on the relation of semantics and grammar, this thesis mainly discusses semantic feature and semantic designation of thing adjectives as attribute and adverbial. Through investigations, thing adjectives mainly serve as attribute; their semantic features are regular and static. Sometimes they serve as adverbial, but they should be overlapped or transformed into another. The overlapping adjectives convey active meaning or accompanying state. No matter what they serve as, the semantic of thing adjectives designates persons or objects.