The German complex affix: word formation and foreign language instruction

從德語複合字綴談構詞理論與外語教學

黃大夫(Da-Fu Huang)

《南台人文社會學報》 2期 (2009/11) Pp. 251-272

https://doi.org/10.29841/STUTJHSS.200911.0008

摘要

德語裡常見的字尾bar 無論在語法或語意的屬性皆與其他字尾有明顯不同。同樣的情形也出現在un…bar/lich/sam 構詞結構中。 un…bar/lich/sam 構詞結構通常包含一個及物動詞的字幹，並衍生出否定字義。本文旨在分析討論德語un…bar/lich/sam 構詞結構。儘管複合字綴, 複雜字綴或不連續詞素存在與否尚有爭議 (Aronoff & Fudeman, 2005)， 本文針對un…bar/lich/sam 構詞提出一個複合字綴的假設來解決組合構詞分析所產生的問題。本文最後也討論複合字綴假設所衍生的問題，並提出後續在外語教學與學習背景下值得研究的方向與議題。

關鍵字

構詞 ； 複合字綴 ； 組合構詞 ； 複雜字綴 ； 德語構詞

並列摘要

The German suffix bar, unlike other German affixes, represents fairly distinctive grammatical and semantic features, and so do the un…bar/lich/sam-constructions, which are typically combined with transitive verb bases, and engender a negative modal meaning. Despite the controversies about circumfixes (Aronoff & Fudeman, 2005), this paper explores the feasibility of positing a German circumfix or complex affix un…bar/lich/sam as a solution to the theoretical and language learning problems posed by the compositional analysis of the un...bar/lich/sam-constructions. After major arguments for the circumfix at issue, the paper ends with an evaluation of the circumfix hypothesis along with its potential problems and suggestions for further research in the context of foreign language learning and pedagogy.

並列關鍵字

word formation ； circumfix ； German word formation ； compositional word structure ； complex affix