溯因兼语句的可接受度和意义调查

A survey on the acceptability and meaning judgment of cause-complement pivotal constructions

学者们注意到,现代汉语的溯因兼语句通常同时具有嵌入句的理解方式。一般母语者对这类句子的可接受度和意义的认知并不统一。为此,我们进行了两次小规模抽样调查。结果显示,1)溯因兼语句各个类型的可接受度有差异性;2)歧义性程度普遍不高;3)总体上溯因句义比嵌入句义更为显著。

It has been noticed that a cause-complement pivotal construction(CCPC henceforth)in modern Chinese can be interpreted as the case of embedded subordination.Divergence,however,is usually observed among even native speakers in terms of acceptance of and meaning judgment on CCPCs.In this regard a couple of small-scale sampling surveys are designed and carried out,which turn out to show that:1)Acceptance differs concerning a variety of CCPCs;2)Degree of ambiguity remains generally low;and 3)the meaning of a CCPC is more intense and salient than that of embedded subordination.