程度副词完句作用的历时考察及原因探析

A Diachronic Investigation into the reason for&the Sentence-forming Function of Degree-adverbs

性质形容词作谓语,一般需要借助于程度副词作状语或程度补语、趋向补语以及语气词"了"等。通过对几个常用程度副词的完句作用的历时考察,试图发现其能起完句作用的原因。最后从形容词本身在语义上无界、具有量性特征的特点出发,尝试对形容词的这一句法特点及程度副词完句作用的原因作了解释。

A qualitative adjective cannot function as predicate in a sentence without any of the following factors： degree adverbs as degree adverbials, predicative complement, tendency complement, or modal particle ＂le（ 了 ）＂. Based upon the diachronic investigation into the sentence-forming function of several high frequency degree adverbs, the paper probe into the reason for it from two aspects： the boundlessness and quantitative features of meaning of adjectives.