“假设性等级”与汉语条件句

Degrees of Hypotheticality and Chinese Conditional Sentences

汉语条件句中有表达违实语义的词汇和语法形式,但是这些形式却无法构成违实范畴这一语法实体,因此汉语条件句不区分"假设性等级"(Comrie1986)。汉语的这一情形正符合Wierzbicka(1996、1997)提出的条件结构和违实结构都是"语义基式"的假设。

There are lexical and syntactic forms which express counterfactual meaning in Chinese conditional sentences.However,these forms can not constitute the syntactic category of counterfactuality.As a result,Chinese conditional sentences do not distinguish degrees of hypotheticality(Comriel986),which accords with the hypothesis proposed by Wierzbicka (1996,1997) that the conditional construction and counterfactual structure are all semantic primitives.