让步式评价构式“不是NP,胜似NP”——兼谈边缘范畴及其成员的实现路径

On the Concessive Evaluation Construction“Bushi NP,Shengsi NP”

“不是NP,胜似NP”作为让步式评价构式,表达主体对陈述对象的范畴归属做出了边缘成员的断言。构式的语用功能可以表达言者的态度立场和认识立场。研究发现,边缘范畴的存在既有心理现实性,也有语言表现性。除了构式层面,语言中的词缀、词汇、话语标记等多个层面都有表征边缘范畴的形式。边缘成员的实现路径有两条:下行路径和上行路径。

“Bushi NP,shengsi NP”is a concessive evaluation construction that expresses the subject’s assertion of peripheral membership in the category of the object.The pragmatic function of the construction can express the attitudinal and epistemic stance of the speaker.The article found that the existence of peripheral categories is both mental reality and linguistical expressiveness.In addition to the construction level,there are forms of representation of peripheral categories at several levels of language,such as affixes,vocabulary and discourse markers.There are two paths to the realisation of peripheral members:the downward path and the upward path,and the reference on which the different paths depends is different.