历时构式语法视角下英语副词again的语言演变研究

Semantic and syntactic changes of English adverb again under diachronic

语言演化观是语义演变和句法形式改变两种路径共同影响产生的形式—意义配对关系的变化过程。形式和意义作为语言演变的两个层面,各自分工,互相协调,相互补充,共同完成语言演化的动态、循环过程。本文在历时构式语法框架下,以英语副词again为范例,探究词汇意义、语法范畴以及语境等因素如何制约完成构式演变全过程,以印证在句法表征与语义衍变双重机制作用下,语言演变构式观更优于传统的语言演变研究方法。

Language development is characterized as the creation of form_(new)-meaning_(new) pairing as the result of an interaction between semantic changes and syntactic changes.Form and meaning,as two facets of language changes,operate independently,complementally and collaboratively to realize the dynamic and successive process of language development.Under the framework of Diachronic Construction Grammar,the illustration of the constructional changes of English adverb‘again"serves as a summative example to prove how both semantic and syntactic elements resonate to achieve the process of constructionalization.It further proves that diachronic construction grammar perspective outstands the traditional diachronicway.