作格动词的性质和作格结构的构造

On the Nature of Unaccusatives and Unaccusative Structures

"作格动词"(unaccusative verb)和"作格结构"是汉语语法学界很重视也有很多研究的动词和动词性结构。本文试图证明,"双动词"形式才是典型作格动词形式,"谓语动词+补语小句"结构才是典型的作格结构。根据这种假设不但可解释以往作格动词结构研究中许多令人困惑的问题,也可建立以作格结构为核心层的"双动词结构(CAUSE)系统"。

Unaccusativity is a well -studied topic in Chinese linguistics. This paper propo- ses that Action -Result compound verbs are real unaccusative verbs in Chinese. From there it is argued that all accusative verbs must be, underlyingly, of this nature, i.e. they must consist of an action denoting element and a result denoting element. Once this has been accepted, many long-standing puzzles related to unaccusative structures or structures involving unaccusative verbs are solved quite readily.