英语实义动词如何融入关系小句——对双重谓语句的认知功能探讨

How do Notional Verbs Merge into the Relative Clause——A Study of the the Double Predicate Clause from a Cognitive-functional Perspective

本文探讨实义动词如何融入关系小句。首先以认知语法理论为依据,考察双重谓语表达式如何为范畴化结构或核准结构审定而成为复杂程度不等的范畴,又如何通过构件内在结构之间的对应而组合成为复杂而抽象的象征单位。然后从功能出发,考察双重谓语表达式如何通过在不同语类和语域中语言使用的检验而成为约定俗成的语言单位,进入整体抽象式的网络,其中的实义动词也随之融入[PredAdjSbj be PredAdj]构式,也就是本文题目中简称的关系小句。

This paper explores how some notional verbs merge into the relative clause structure.It first examines in the light of cognitive grammar how the double predicate expressions are subjected to test by the categorizing structure or sanctioning structure and become categories of varying degrees of complexity,and how the components of these expressions are integrated as complex and schematic symbolic units through the correspondence between the substructures of the components.Then in view of function the paper looks into how the expressions stand to test of language use in various genres and registers and acquire the conventional linguistic unit status,thus becoming part of the full schematic network,and meanwhile the verbs merge into the constuction of [PredAdjSbj be PredAdj],which is called relative clause for brevity in the title.