“X若Y”成语构式分析

构式语法认为,组成语言的构式不是相互独立的,而是彼此联系的,一种构式既可能传承另一构式的特征,也可能被另一构式压制。"X若Y"构式用成语的形式表达比喻的修辞手法,它传承了比喻修辞和成语的一些特征。但是,由于传承了成语四字格特征,导致其句法关系表达不完整,这时,该构式又受比喻修辞的压制,从而达到用明快简洁的形式表达形象生动意义的效果。

Construction grammar believes that constructions constituting language are not independent, but mutual- ly connected. One construction may inherit the features of another construction, or it maybe under the coercion of another construction. The construction of ＂X or Y＂ conveys the meaning of the rhetorical device of metaphor in the form of Chinese idioms and it inherits some features of metaphor and Chinese idioms. However, since it inherits the feature of four-character Chinese idioms, which leads to that its syntactic relation can not be completely expressed, it is coerced by the rhetorical device of metaphor. In this way, the meaning is vividly conveyed with the concise forms.