摘要
英语中动句的研究大多集中在带副词修饰成分的类型。而实际上中动句中的显性成分除了副词之外,还包括情态动词、强调形式的do以及反身代词。通过分析这些显性成分的语义特征,提出它们都蕴含动态情态义,同时考察了各类型中动句的历史分布状况。结果显示,中动句的历史发展路径可以归纳为情态算子的确认方式发生转变的过程,即从最初的由情态动词或do直接合并到T位置,发展到后来的由副词或反身代词在LF层面提升到T位置来实现。从历史研究层面提出情态义是中动句的界定性特征。
The study of English middles has been mainly focused on the type with an adverbial modification so far.However,the overt elements in middles also include modals,stressed do and reflexives.This paper analyses the characteristics of those obligatory elements,finds that they are related to dynamic modality,and observes the historical distribution of all types of middles.The result shows that the development of middles can be best characterized in terms of the change in the manner of specifying the modal operator in T,from the direct merge of a modal or a stressed do in T as a basic strategy to the covert movement of an adverb or a reflexive as the later development.It proposes that modality is the defining characteristics of middles from the diachronic perspective.
出处
《天津外国语大学学报》
2019年第6期88-102,157,158,共17页
Journal of Tianjin Foreign Studies University
基金
教育部人文社会科学研究青年基金项目“各类型中动句的语法化过程及演变动因研究”(18YJC740014)
关键词
显性成分
动态情态义
情态算子
发展路径
起源
the overt element
dynamic modality
modal operator
developmental path
emergence
