时间形容词的逻辑语义分析

A Logico-semantic Analysis of Temporal Adjectives

本文在传统的句法和语义分析的基础上,运用现代语义学理论在时间系统中考察"早"在不同分布中的逻辑语义关系,抽象出时间性形容词"早"的内涵语义要素:时间坐标、起始点、终结点和参照点。这可为构造时间认知语义范畴提供分析框架,为进一步形式化做准备,也为其他表时间的词逻辑语义分析提供参考。

Based on the syntactic and traditional semantic analyses, the paper examines zao （early）, a temporal adjective in the framework of temporal system. The analysis includes the semantic characteristics of different distributions, the logical relationships such as temporal axis, the starting point, the end point, and the reference point. The logical analysis of the temporal words can provide a cognitive approach to the formation of new temporal category and the formalization. This semantic model might help in the analysis of other temporal words.