指宾形容词状语句的论元编码分析

Analysis of Argument Encoding in Object- oriented Adverbial Clauses

状语的主要功能是修饰谓语,但当形容词充当状语时,语义指向较为复杂,其语义并不一定直接指向谓语中心语,还可以指向主语、宾语等成分,其句式可表示为NPs+Adj+VP+NPo。为解释描述性指宾形容词状语和结果性指宾形容词状语深层结构的不同及形容词状语语义指向歧义的问题,拟借助分布形态学理论的动词化核心、动词词根对指宾形容词状语句的事件结构进行句法表征,进一步阐明表层结构决定句子的形式,而深层结构决定句子的意义。

Adverbials are mainly used for modifying predicates. Semantic orientation becomes quite complex when adjectives work as adverbials. Under the circumstance, adjective adverbials can not only semantically orient to predicates, but also to subjects or objects, etc. It can be formally represented as NPs ＋ Adj ＋ VP ＋ NPo. Under the framework of Distributed Morphology, this thesis employs the verbalizing heads and verbal roots to explain the differences of deep structures between descriptive adjective adverbials and resultative adjective adverbials and the ambiguity of semantic orientation, further clarifying that surface structures determine the forms of sentences while deep structures determine the meanings of sentences.