FROM UNDER THE TABLE结构的理据

The Motivation of FROM UNDER THE TABLE

根据传统语法理论,介词与分词词组搭配使用是不符合语法的,但是在语言现实中,像 from under thetable 这类结构经常出现.本文从该结构的内部语义着手,试从语词的粘合性,句法省略理论,同位结构语词关系及介词的语义变化等角度说明这结构存在的依据.

According to the traditional grammar a preposition followed by a prepositional phrase is abnormal.But in the linguistic reality such structure as FROM UNDER THE TABLE is not rare. Beginning with the analysis of the underlied meaning of such structure,this essay is to confirm its motivation with the theories of ellipsis,the cohesion between words,word relations in appositional structure and meaning shift of a preposition.