新兴重叠式VVV的句法分布及其增量意义

On Syntactic Distribution and Semantics of the New Reduplication Form VVV

网络中新近流行的动词叠用现象VVV2应该是语法重叠的产物,其语义与句法分布均与普通话已有的VVV1、VV不尽一致。研究发现,VVV2具有稳定且明显的增量语义,是基式动词V长时持续或多次反复的一种描述;而其句法分布的特殊之处表现为:1) 能较为自由地出现在小句(如定语小句、状语小句、主语小句等)的谓语位置上;2) 没有明显的句类选择性;3) 丧失了带宾语的能力,不及物性显著;4) 不与体貌标记、否定标记和句末助词“的”共现。研究还发现,VVV2兴起的语法动机可从两个角度作出解释:一方面可以填补普通话词汇语类重叠体系中无动词典型语法重叠的空缺,另一方面能补充现代汉语动词重叠体系无原生重叠的局面。这二者都可使汉语的重叠体系架构更加完整。

The new form VVV2 in netspeak has huge differences from VVV1 and VV which are pretty common in Putonghua.This paper assumes that it is a kind of morphological reduplication rather than a pragmatic phenomenon because VVV2􀆳s se⁃mantics and syntactic distribution do match those features of reduplication in typological linguistics.The new VVV is an icon⁃ic function of V semantically,has no sentence-type restriction,and shows a dis-transitive feature syntactically.VVV2􀆳s emer⁃gence has great theoretical implications for the reduplication system of Modern Chinese.It not only instantiates the gap of lexi⁃cal category reduplication in Putonghua but also makes the verb reduplication system of Chinese much more complete.