THE HISTORY OF THE DISPOSAL CONSTRUCTION REVISITED-EVIDENCE FROM ZEN DIALOGUES IN THE TANG DYNASTY

處置結構歷史的回顧－唐朝禪語錄中所見的材料

黃宣範(Shuanfan Huang)

《Journal of Chinese Linguistics》 14卷1期 (1986/01) Pp. 43-52

摘要

Drawing on the Zen dialogues of the Tang dynasty, this study presents an antigrammaticalization thesis for the emergence of the ba sentence, and suggests that the jiang sentence may have served as the guiding model for the development of the ba sentence in its modern form, the mechanism of change being one of lexical replacement. The bei construction is suggested as the ultimate trigger for the evolution of the disposal characteristics in the jiang and thus also the ba constructions. This study of the history of the disposal constructions is thus instructive in that it confirms the general idea of syntactic change as a surface phenomenon-either grammaticalization or lexical replacement originates in contexts that do not distort surface form.

並列摘要

根據唐朝禪語錄的材料，本文對“把”字句的出現提出了一個反語法化的看法，並建議“将”字句具有現代“把”字句發展的先導模式作用，變化機制是詞滙替換。“被”字句是“将”字句，“把”字句處置特徵的最初的触發。對於處置式歷史的研究證實了句法變化是一個表層現象的一般看法，即語法化和詞滙替換産生於不改變表層形式的語境之中。