现代汉语名量结构的两种测量义——兼论与时量结构的语义平行性关系

Two Types of Measurements of the Nominal Measure Phrases in Chinese

现代汉语的名量结构表示对个体的测量。根据是否满足单调性蕴涵,我们将名量结构的测量义区分为整体测量和部分测量。这两种测量方式的选择在句法形式上表现为名量结构中结构助词"的"的有无。通过比较讨论名量结构和时量结构在"整体/部分"测量上的表现,我们论证了二者在语义表达上的平行性关系。

This paper investigates the semantics of the nominal measure phrases （NMPs） that measure the amount/number of entities/individuals. Drawing insight from the monotonicity constraint in the grammar of measurement, we propose that there are two types of measurements： holistic measurement and partitive measurement, which are correlated with the occurrences of the particle de （的）. There is some semantic parallelism between the nominal measurement expressed by the NMPs and the event measurement expressed by the temporal phrases, which can be analyzed in a unified way.