摘要
根据信息结构分析,形容词谓语句通常是谓语焦点句,即"话题-陈述句"。在"话题-陈述句"中,主语信息量较小,是已被激活的实体,相反,谓语部分信息量较大,能够充当焦点。因此,谓语为了能传达更多信息一般会加程度副词。"话题-陈述句"中的副词"很"几乎丧失了作为强化词的功能,并逐渐语法化成为一个标志谓语焦点的标记。如果形容词谓语句不是"话题-陈述"结构,它可以是两种焦点结构之一,即句子焦点结构或论元焦点结构。这两种焦点结构都是有标记的,不仅韵律上需要把重音移到句首,也要求光杆形容词单独充当谓语。
The information structure of a sentence with an adjective predicate modified by an adverbial intensifier is usually analyzed as a topic-comment structure in which the subject is an activated topic and the predicate is a focus conveying new information. The adverb hen( 很, very) modifying the adjective predicate in the topiccomment structure has already grammaticalized into a predicate-focusing marker losing its degree-intensifying function. In contrast, the sentence with a predicate composed of a bare adjective is analyzed as a non-topiccomment structure which renders only the subject or the whole sentence as the focus.
出处
《中国语文》
CSSCI
北大核心
2016年第4期387-396,共10页
Studies of the Chinese Language
