事件结构理论框架下英汉易变行为动词研究

A Study of English and Chinese Variable Behavior Verbs in the Framework of Event-Structure Theory

英语非宾格中的行为动词易变现象已有较多研究,而此现象在汉语研究中尚存在模糊理解。基于生成语法理论的研究,运用事件结构理论尝试对汉语非宾格现象中的易变行为动词提出一种新的解释方法。研究表明,句子的事件结构与句法结构存在紧密联系,不同类型的事件结构对应不同的句法结构,而事件结构本身具有组合性特征,它通过句法结构的组构性得到表征。因此,研究得出的结论是,非宾格性是谓词层面的一种结构特征,而非动词本身的句法属性。对于汉语易变行为动词应着眼于整个谓语部分,而不应只着眼于单个动词的性质。

While plenty of researches have been done about the variable phenomenon of behavior verbs in English unaccusative verbs, there still exist fuzzy understandings of them in Chinese study. According to the study of Generative Grammar, the paper, adopting the theory of event structure, attempts to provide a new analysis on variable behavior verbs in Chinese un - accusative verbs. It shows that vent structure of a sentence is isomorphic to its syntactic structure, and different types of event structure, which is of compositionality by itself, are repre- sented by different syntactic structures. So the conclusion is that the unaccusative is a structural feature at the level of predicate, rather than a syntactic property of the verb itself. Chinese variable behavior verbs are supposed to focus on the entire part of the predicates rather than the property of single verbs.