从日语持续动词的有界化审视语言中的“界”

On the “Boundary”in the Languages through the Boundarization of the Continuous Verbs in Japanese

本文主要考察日语持续动词的有界化过程,探讨语言中的"界"概念。"无界"与"有界"是事物、动作与状态存在的两种方式。语料分析发现,即使是典型日语持续动词的"无界"状态,在一定条件下也可以实现有界化。持续动词的有界化是人类认知活动中视点变换的结构性显现。"界"是人类经验在语言中的投射,正如任何事物最终都存在边界一样,有界状态是事态在语言中存在的终极形式。

This paper first examines the boundarization of the continuous verbs in Japanese,and then discusses the boundary in the languages. All the things,process and states exist in ＂bounded＂or＂unbounded＂state. Through examining the data,we find that even the representative continuous Japanese verbs can change from the unbounded state to the bounded one under certain conditions. The boundarization of the continuous verbs is the result of the variation of people＇s viewpoints,and the boundary in the language is the projection of human＇s cognitive activities. Just as boundary exists with everything,bounded state is the ultimate existence of events.