现代汉语否定词的位置变化及成因分析——以“建议不VP”和“不建议VP”为例

The position change of the negator and its causes in modern Chinese-With“jianyi bu+VP”and “bu jianyi+VP”as examples

汉语里“不”本不能直接否定“建议”,但大约在五四运动前后,出现了“不建议”的说法。这是晚近时期汉英接触诱发的结果。“不建议”具有委婉、留有余地等语用功能,在汉语中有存在的价值。

The negator bu(not)in Chinese originally could not directly negate jianyi(propose),forming a bu jianyi expression.But around the time of May 4th Movement,there appeared the expression“bu jianyi+VP”in Chinese.It is analysed in this paper that the expression resulted from the Chinese-English contact at the end of the Qing Dynasty and in the early years of the Republic of China.Since the expression“bu jianyi+VP”has such pragmatic functions as of euphemism and leeway,it does have its own value of existence in Chinese.