从编码角度看连动结构“单一事件”特征

Serial Verb Constructions Describe Single Events:From the Perspective of Language Coding

一般认为连动结构表达一个“单一事件”,但也常因“单一事件”语义模糊、不可验证而遭受质疑。通过对20个《梨子的故事》汉语自然口语叙事体语篇讲述者对同一情景使用连动结构进行编码的过程中表现出来的倾向性进行观察,发现连动结构关注事件的过程层面,编码了事件的动作过程及性质属性、样貌特征、起点或终点等概念内容,将事件概念化为一个相对完整的过程,因而具有单一性。连动结构所表达的单一事件在汉语中表现为关系事件、伴随事件、包含事件、位移事件四种基本类型。

Based on 20 oral narrative texts of The Pear Story,we try to answer the question whether or not a serial verb construction(SVC)refer to a single conceptual event by analyzing the process how a speaker uses a SVC to code information in utterance.We find that a SVC,focusing on event process,encodes as its conceptual content the process information such as action with its value,action with its ground,starting and ending,which leads to the conclusion that a SVC refers to a single conceptual event from the process level.We can forecast by the conceptual content of the SVC that SVCs in Chinese can refer to a Related-Event,an Associated-Event,a Contained-Event,or a Motion-Event.