从凸显看“了”的语法意义问题

On the Grammatical Meaning of "Le" in Chinese: from the Perspective of Prominence

本文在"了"的二分(了体、了语)的基础上,主张"了体"的语法意义是表示"相对某一时间参照点,某行为或者状态已经成为事实",而"结束"、"告一段落"和"开始"等意义可以看作"了体"的不同次语法意义,它们是由具体语境中凸显的不同而产生的。

The grammatical meaning of ＂le＂ ,a marker of aspects in Mandarin has been de- scribed differently among researchers, three of which are to express the end, a certain phase of an event and the start of an event or a state. This paper holds that its gram- matical meaning can be described as follows： an event has taken place or a state has formed prior to a certain reference time,and that the grammatical meanings mentioned a- bove can be considered sub- grammatical meanings of ＂le＂ ,which result from different prominence of the phases of an event.