英语因果性并列构式的构成条件和认知语用理据

The causal coordinate construction in English:Formation conditions,cognitive and pragmatic motivations

英语并列连词and可以将两个小句并置起来构成表达因果的并列构式。能够进入这种并列构式的小句必须同时满足四个限制条件,即整句性条件、语义相关性条件、时序性条件和同真性条件。作为一种复合构式,因果性并列构式表达的是一种隐含性因果义。这种隐含性因果义有其认知理据和语用理据。认知理据就是整体对部分的管控作用,即该构式作为整体对其分句的管控作用。语用理据就是部分与部分之间的互动作用,即该构式中两个分句之间的相互语用充实作用。这两个理据协同作用,使因果性并列构式得以成立,并使其以间接方式表达隐含性因果义。

In English,two clauses can be conjoined using the conjunction and to form a causal coordinate construction.The two clauses of such a construction must simultaneously satisfy four restrictive conditions:full clause condition,semantic correlation condition,sequentiality condition,and co-true condition.As a composite construction,a causal coordinate construction typically conveys an implicated causal meaning.Such an implicated causal meaning is motivated by cognitive and pragmatic motivations.The cognitive motivation is the control of the construction as a whole over its two coordinates,and pragmatic motivation is the interaction between the two coordinates themselves;that is,the mutual pragmatic enrichment between the two coordinates.Cognitive and pragmatic motivations work together to guarantee the grammaticality and acceptability of the causal coordinate construction and to enable such a construction to indirectly convey an implicated causal meaning.