从认知视角看英语存在句——以“there-”句式为例

The English Existential Sentence Pattern from Cognitive Perspective——Taking “there-” sentence pattern as an example

存在句是英语中的一种特殊句型,其形成具有其语言认知基础。文章基于认知语言学理论框架视角,运用语法化、象似性原则、图形—背景法则理论,在认知语言学范畴内,探析与揭示英语存在句"there-"句式的认知特点和规律。

The English existential sentence is a special sentence pattern,with its linguistic cognitive basis.This paper,from the perspective of cognitive linguistics,uses cognitive theories like,grammaticalization,iconicity principles,graphics-background principle,to analyze the existential sentence and reveal the cognitive characteristics and laws of ＂there-＂ sentence patterns.