英汉中动构式的概念整合机制

Conceptual Integration in English and Chinese Middle Constructions

目前国内外学者对中动构式的研究兴趣主要在于其语义、句法特征和论元角色及构句限制等方面,很少涉及中动构式的生成及其认知发生机制。本研究重新审视了英汉中动句的句法语义特征,分析了中动句句法语义的冲突及融合,发现存在于人类概念结构中的状态意义和属性特征因其相似性发生跨空间的映射,并通过概念整合机制,形成新的概念:中动构式源于被动概念和主动概念的整合,是人们兼表状态意义和属性特征的理想选择。

As to Middle Construction, scholars＇ research interests mainly lie in its semantic and syntactic features, argument roles and formation constraints, with little attention paid to its generation and the related online cognitive process. This research has a detailed look into the syntactic and semantic features of Middle Constructions in English and Chinese. By analyzing the syntactic and semantic conflict and fusion in Middle Construction, a conclusion is accordingly generalized that the ＂state＂ and ＂property＂ elements are cross-space mapped with their similarity, motivating the integration of the existing concepts to form a new one. This rest：arch shows that Middle Construction derives from the blending of passive and active concepts to meet the need of expressing state and property meaning with one construction.