way构式的认知研究英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

‘|． ‘|． lIII lIII I I II I II II II III I IIl Y1 944471 ，．．．．．．．．．．．．．．，．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．L Abstract The Way Construction，a relatively complicated concept，has received much attention from linguists in the recent literature．Syntactically,The Construction can be ◆ represen‘ed as[suBJi IV[POssi way】oBL】】-s锄antically，‘he c。ns‘ruc‘i。n implies that the subject referent moves along the path designated by the prepositional phrase． It displays the feature of form-meaning correspondences that exist independently of particular verbs which instantiate it．The meaning of the Way Construction is not derived from the meaning of the lexical items which instantiate it or from the meaning of any other established construction．Thus，the Way Construction is a distinct construction in the light of Construction Grammar． This thesis provides a relatively comprehensive account of the Way Construction from cognitive perspective within the theoretical framework of the Construction Grammar by using both top-down and bottom-up approaches．First of all，the thesis makes a unified cognitive description of the general properties and semantic c。ns‘rain‘s。f‘he way c。ns‘ruc‘i。9·Then‘his‘hesis‘ries‘。re。examine h。w‘he ● meaning of the Way Construction results from by discussing the interaction between the Way Construction and its verbs．Lastly,the thesis attempts to examine the cognitive motivations to the formation and meaning construal of the Way Construction from cognitive perspective and come to the conclusion that the property inheritance from related constructions and metonymic coercion are the cognitive motivations of the Way Construction． The thesis found that different scholars take different views on the several semantic interpretations of the Way Construction and use different terminology to term them．Based on the previous studies，the thesis tries to interpret the semantic of the Way Construction，and consider the Construction should be divided into three semantic categories：means