状态变化义素在汉语单语素动词中的词化模式--一项基于可接受度判定实验的研究

Lexicalization Patterns of State Change Meaning in Mandarin Monomorphemic Verbs:An Empirical Study Based on Acceptability Judgments

采用了实证研究,让受试对用含单语素动词的完整体句描述零结果事件做出可接受度判定。通过观察动词中状态变化语义的编码力度,推测其词化模式。结果表明,汉语成人容易接受有状态变化趋向的活动情状和致使完结情状的未终结解读,而且未终结解读的可能性呈显著递减。另外,致使完结情状包含梯度和非梯度两类,两者在未终结解读上也呈现了递减趋向。结果证实,状态变化义素在不同类型动词中具有不同的词化模式,而此词化模式对未终结解读起到重大影响。

This empirical study,based on the result of an online questionnaire,examines Mandarin adults’knowledge of the encoding pattern of state change meaning in causative change of state verbs.Participants were required to give an acceptability rate of perfective sentences built with Mandarin monomorphemic verbs conveying a state change meaning for zero-result non-culminating events.The results reveal that it was easy to accept non-culminating construals(NC)of result-state oriented activity verbs,while also possible for causative accomplishment verbs.The NC acceptability rate for these two categories of verbs presents a significant decline.On the other hand,gradable and ungradable verbs lead to NC with an inconspicuous decline.The findings of this study prove the different lexicalization patterns of state change in Mandarin monomorphemic verbs and shed light on how they lead to different NC.