英语过去时态非过去用法的心理空间视角分析

The Non-past Use of Simple Past Tense from the Perspective of Mental Space Theory

用Fauconnier提出的心理空间理论(mental space theory)解析英语一般过去时的非过去用法。英语过去时态的非过去用法分为非过去时间用法和非时间用法。在心理空间认知网络构建中,触发语触发了新的心理空间,且两个空间之间由于相同的语义元素而彼此可及。英语过去时态的非过去用法和非时间用法便在跨域映射过程中派生而来。

This paper discusses the non-past use of simple past tense in English by virtue of mental space theory put forward by Fauconnier. The non-past use of past tense can be divided into two parts： non-past time use and non-temporal use. The two cases are analyzed in sequence to elucidate the internal cognitive mechanism of the non-past use of simple past tense from the mental space triggered by some markers .