INTERACTION AND EXPLANATION: THE CASE OF VARIATION IN CHINESE VO CONSTRUCTION

互動與解釋：論漢語動實結構的變化

何萬順(One-Soon Her)

《Journal of Chinese Linguistics》 25卷1期 (1997/01) Pp. 146-165

摘要

Incorporating the concepts of competing changes (Wang 1969), modularity (Huang 1984, 1988), and grammatical interaction (Hsieh 1992a), this paper attempts another support for the claim that variation in structure is often the result of interaction between competing grammatical forces in history, and that competition may occur across modules (Hsieh 1989. Her 1994). We establish explicitly a typology of VO sequences in Mandarin Chinese: 1) word, 2) idiomatic phrase, 3) dual status-sword and phrase. and 4) regular phrase, and interpret this variation of VO construction as the consequence of the interaction between two conflicting forces: lexicalization and ionization, of two distinct grammatical modules, lexicon and syntax, respectively.

並列摘要

本文整合了三個概念：王士元（Wang 1969）的變化競爭（competing changes），黃正德（Huang 1984）的模塊（modularity），及謝信一（Hsieh 1992a）的語法互動（grammatical interaction），并以此對漢語中動實結構的變化（variation）做出分析和解釋。我們首先建立并驗證漢語中動實結構的幾種可能的形態：一。（復合）詞，二成語詞組，三。雙重語位：單詞及詞組，四。一般詞組；按著進一步地將這數種形態變化的發生歸因于詞？（lexicon）與句（syntax）這兩個不同模塊之間的競爭，而詞彙勢力的具體表現就是詞彙化（lexicalization）的過程，句法勢力的擴張則是經由離子化（ionization）的過程。漢語中動實結構結構的變化在這種解釋下再次說明了語法結構的變化是各種不同的競爭的或互動的勢力之間的互動關係所造成的結果（Her 1994）。