汉语存在句动词的非宾格性——来自眼动追踪的证据

The Unaccusativity of Verbs in Mandarin Chinese Existential Sentences——Evidence from Eye-tracking

本研究通过眼动实验探讨了汉语母语者对汉语存在句、主谓宾句和主谓句中动词的加工过程。研究发现:存在句和主谓宾句中及物动词的早期加工没有差异,存在句和主谓宾句中及物动词的早期加工均快于主谓句;存在句中及物动词的晚期加工慢于主谓宾句,存在句和主谓宾句中及物动词的晚期加工均慢于主谓句;存在句中及物动词的整合加工比主谓宾句和主谓句都更为复杂,主谓宾句和主谓句的整合加工没有差异。研究结果表明,进入存在句中及物动词的加工模式与主谓宾句和主谓句并不完全相同,这为汉语存在动词非宾格性的验证提供了证据。

This study investigates the processing of verbs in Chinese existential sentences,subject-verb-object(SVO)sentences,and subject-verb(SV)sentences with native Chinese speakers using eye-tracking experiments.The findings reveal distinct patterns of verb processing across these sentence types.First,the early processing of transitive verbs in both existential sentences and SVO sentences is faster compared with SV sentences.Second,in terms of late processing,transitive verbs in existential sentences exhibit slower processing compared with SVO sentences,and both existential sentences and SVO sentences demonstrate slower processing than SV sentences.Third,the integration processing of transitive verbs in existential sentences is more complex than in SVO and SV sentences,while no significant difference is observed in the integration processing between SVO sentences and SV sentences.These results provide empirical evidence supporting the unaccusative nature of Chinese existential verbs,highlighting the divergent processing patterns between existential and non-existential sentence structures.