汉英名量异常搭配的认知解读

A Cognitive Interpretation of the Anomalous Classifier Structures in both Chinese and English

运用概念整合理论对汉英名量异常搭配的认知解读进行共性考察。通过对汉英异常搭配表量结构的分析发现,根据名词和量词所代表两个输入空间之间的空间冲突,汉英名量异常搭配主要有两种:篡位型搭配(基于词性范畴的不兼容)和错位型搭配(基于语义范畴的错位);汉英名量异常搭配的认知解读并不是一次简单的四空间概念整合过程,而是更为错综复杂的心理认知程序,有可能涉及到多个输入空间,其中有的输入空间并非存在于显性的语言表述中,而是隐匿于量词背后该量词范畴中的原型名词。汉英异常搭配表量结构中的量词具有激活并突显名词所代表心理空间某种属性的作用。

This paper attempts to apply the Conceptual Integration Theory to the study of anomalous classifier structures in Chinese as well as in English,with the noun as one of the input spaces and the classifier as another.In the complex cognitive interpretation of the anomalous classifier structures,one conceptual blending is not enough to help interpret them.In some situations,more than two input spaces are sometimes involved,in which some of the input spaces do not exist in the explicit expression,but comes from the prototype nouns in the classifier category.During the interpretation,some salient attribute in the noun spaces is highlighted by means of classifiers.