HOME空间构式的认知阐释及其启示

Home-Grounded Constructions: Cognitive Interpretations and Implications

语法学者对"HOME空间构式"(如go home)有不同的解释,主要有两种观点:一种受传统语法影响,认为home是副词;另一种受生成语法影响,认为home是"光杆名词"或"轻名词",构式中存在"虚位介词"。本文从认知语言学和语言类型学角度探讨HOME构式的形成机制,认为home是路径-背景合并型的卫星语,是语言内在的语法机制(词汇化、标记性)和人类的认知规律(典型范畴、认知突显、经济原则)共同作用的结果。本研究对广义的"运动动词+空间名词"构式具有一定的解释力。

There are two major viewpoints towards HOME constructions such as ＂go home＂. Traditional grammarians have taken ＂home＂ as an adverb while generativists have treated it as a bare or light noun with a null preposition. Adopting a cognitive-linguistic and typological perspective, we argue that it belongs to the type of ＂satellites＂ conflating path and ground, the formation of which is determined by grammatical mechanisms （ i.e. lexicalization and markedness） as well as cognitive mechanisms （ i. e. prototypicality, salience and economy）. The findings have wider implications for the understanding of ＂motion verb ＋ spatial NP＂ constructions.