视觉动词“见”与“see”的语法化对比分析-comparative analysis of grammaticalization of visual verbs.docxVIP

AbstractCognitivelinguisticsbelievesthatlanguageisnotadirectreflectionoftheobjectiveworld,butpeople?sconstructionoftheobjectiveworldbyvirtueofperceptionandexperience.Thisenlightensustocombinehumancognitionwiththelanguagesystemratherthantoconfinetotheinternalsystemoflanguageitselfwhenseekingtheevolvingmechanismsoflanguages.Grammaticalizationconsistsintheincreaseoftherangeofamorphemeadvancingfromalexicaltogrammatical,orfromalessgrammaticaltoamoregrammaticalstatus(Kurytlowicz,1965:52).Indailylife,visionverbsareusedbothfrequentlyandwidely.Linguisticstudiesindicatethatthemoreawordisused,themorepossiblethatitwillbegrammaticalized.Hence,tochoosevisionverbsastheresearchsubjectsisofeasinessforpursuingthemechanismsandmotivationsofgrammaticalization.Chinesevisionverb“jian(见)”andEnglishvisionverb“see”havearelativelyhighdegreeofsemanticequivalence.Sofar,therehasbeensomegrammaticalizationstudiestargetedat“jian(见)”whilestudiestargetedatgrammaticalizationof“see”arerelativelyfew.Andthecontrastivestudyofthesetwowordsisstillless.Differentfrommostofthepreviousresearcheswhichstudiedgrammaticalizationsimplyfromtheangleofcognition,lexicalmeaningorthechangeofsyntacticfunction,thisthesis,basedontheeventcognitivemodelofverbs,takesadifferentperspectivetostudythegrammaticalizationofEnglish“see”andChinese“jian(见)”contrastivelybysynthesizingimageschema,semanticstructureandsyntacticstructure,withaneyetoprovidingacomparativelyoveralldescriptionandexplanationforthesetwovisionverbsandmeanwhiletoseekingtheirsimilaritiesanddifferencesintermsoftheevolutionpath,mechanism,aswellasthedegreeofgrammaticalization.Bycontrastivemethod,thisstudyalsoplaysapositiverolebothinthediscoveryofcognitiveuniversalitiesconcerningChineseandEnglishandinthecomprehensionofthenatureoflanguage.Thepresentthesisdiscoveredthat“jian(见)”and“see”havesimilarpathwaysandmechanismsofgrammaticalization.Atthelevelofimageschema,bothofthemundergotheextensionprocesschangingfromphysicalspaceschematomentalspaceschemaandfinallytospeech-actspaces