汉语冠词化研究回顾与展望

A review of the status quo and prospect of Chinese articlization research

一般认为,汉语没有冠词。但近年来多见汉语指示词和数量词冠词化的讨论,本文将其概括为冠词化进程说和冠词化已然说。本文对上述这三种观点的代表性文献进行了梳理和评述,发现主流观点是汉语没有冠词语类,并根据冠词语法化的判断标准对冠词化进程说和已然说进行分析,主张汉语指示词“这/那”和数量词“一(个)”呈现冠词化倾向或者它们本身就兼有冠词的功能。

It is popularly believed that there exists no article in Chinese.However,in recent years,there have been many dis-cussions on the articlization of Chinese demonstratives and quantifiers,including the view of the articlization process and the view of the finished articlization,as we generalized.After sorting out and reviewing the representative literature of the above three perspectives,this paper finds the mainstream standpoint remains that there is no article category in Chinese.And it fur-ther analyzes the latter two viewpoints based on the criteria of article grammaticalization,advocating the Chinese demonstra-tives“zhe(这)/na(那)”and the quantifiers“yi(ge)一(个)”show the tendency of articlization or they themselves possess the functions of articles.