新兴构式“简直了”的功能与成因

The Functions and Origins of the New Construction “Jian zhi le”

新兴构式“简直了”可做谓语、补语和小句,多修饰可量化对象,对语境有高度依赖。“简直了”的基本功能是评价功能,在使用中又由评价功能扩展出情态功能。“简直了”以“简直”的强调作用和“了”的强化作用为语义基础,其形式生成和意义获得与积极省略和语境吸收密切相关。不过从深层来看,形式-功能的象似性是“简直了”产生及流行的主要原因。

The new construction“Jian zhi le” can serve as the predicate and the complement, and it is also used as a clause. It often modifies what could be quantified, but it is highly dependent on context.“Jian zhi le” is used mainly for degree evaluation, which slowly develops a subsidiary function of modality expression in use.“Jian zhi le” is semanticly based on the emphatic effect of “jian zhi” and the intensive effect of “le”, and the generation of its form and meaning is closely related to positive omission and context absorption. While we look from the deeper level, the form-function iconicity is the main cause of its emergence and popularization.