“花园蜜蜂句”的语义及句法特征考察

A Probe into the Semantic and Syntactic Features of Swarm-type Alternating Sentences

"花园蜜蜂句"表面上是句法上论元倒换现象,实质上是图像—背衬倒换现象在句法上的反映,其复杂性主要体现于处所主语句式。围绕哪类动词能进入该句式,施事主语句的NP和处所主语句with后的NP究竟存在哪些特征等问题展开讨论,指出处所主语句是一种描写性结构,其功能在于刻画特定处所具有的某种动态特征。

With the locativesubject form constituting the hard nut, the alternating sentences involving swarm -type verbs, which syntactically are described as argument alternation, actually are a mapping of figure - ground alternation into the grammatical domain. This paper investigates the characteristics of the verbs that yield acceptable L- form,the features of the subject NPs and the with -object NPs of the L- form. It concludes that the L - form of swarm - alternation is a descriptive construction which characterizes a certain dynamic texture of a specific location.