Development and its mechanism of disposal sentences from a causative perspective(PDF)
《长安大学学报（社科版）》[ISSN:1671-6248/CN:61-1391/C]
- Issue:
- 2019年01期
- Page:
- 51-61
- Research Field:
- 文学
- Publishing date:
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- Title:
- Development and its mechanism of disposal sentences from a causative perspective
- Author(s):
- DING Ding
- Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University, Beijing 100871， China
- Keywords:
- the history of Chinese language; disposal sentences; causative; verbresultative compounds; causative constructions
- PACS:
- H141
- DOI:
- -
- Abstract:
- Disposal sentences develop in the history of Chinese language and have gradually started to express causative. This paper discusses which kinds of disposal sentences can express causative and how they express it. Causative semantics and causative expressions are firstly defined from a viewpoint of cognitive linguistics. Then the diachronic development of disposal sentences is explored by searching the historical corpus and semantic analysis. Finally, disposal sentences are compared with verbresultative compounds and causative constructions, in order to find out which kinds of disposal sentences can express causative and to analyze the relationship between these causative expressions. The results are as following: firstly, the disposal sentences have developed from “disposal action” to “disposal action and result”, and finally to “disposal result”. Secondly, not all disposal sentences express causative. Only disposal sentences in narrow view with verbresultative compounds and causative disposal sentences can express causative. Thirdly, when expressing causative, these disposal sentences, verbresultative compounds and causative constructions differ from each other on the intention of NP1 and the complement of caused event. In the history of Chinese language, disposal sentence has gone through developments, with its core meaning as “the overall control of the objects by the disposal action”. The disposal action at first gradually can be used as the disposal result. During this development, some kinds of disposal sentences can express causative.
Last Update: 2019-02-25