英语变体的认知演化——构式在动态模型中的作用

The Cognitive Evolution of Englishes——The Role of Constructions in the Dynamic Model

Schneider的动态模型(2007)预测,正是词汇-句法接口展现了本土化阶段典型结构创新所浮现的最初痕迹。本文将展示构式语法理论怎样为该现象提供认知解释,然后通过聚焦比较关联构式(如The higher the price is,the more interesting the productis“价格越高,产品越有吸引力”)来阐明构式语法分析的优势。正如对国际英语语料库项目中多个语料库的数据统计分析所示,所有变体都呈现出相似的加工效应,但这些变体对半实体半图式性中观构式的依赖性则差异显著。

Schneider's Dynamic Model(2007)predicts that it is the lexicon-syntax interface that exhibits first traces of the emergence of characteristic structural innovations during the phase of Nativization.In this paper,I will show how a Construction Grammar approach provides a cognitive explanation for this phenomenon.I will then illustrate the advantages of a Construction Grammar analysis by focussing on Comparative Correlative(CC)constructions(e.g.The higher the price is,the more interesting the product is.;cf.Fillmore et al.1988;Sag 2010).As the statistical analysis of data from various corpora from the International Corpus of English project show,all varieties exhibit similar processing effects,but differ greatly with respect to their reliance on partly substantive,partly schematic meso-constructions.