「V-滿」結構內量詞及方位短語的表現

Quantity and Locative phrases in the V-man ‘full’ construction

高郁茹(Yu-ju Kao)

指導教授 ： 張寧

國立中正大學/文學院/語言學研究所/碩士(2013年)

摘要

本篇論文要旨為討論中文「V-滿」(例如:裝滿，擺滿，等…)結構內量詞及方位短語的表現。此篇論文我先分析「V-滿」結構，並假設其為動結式動詞而非其他動詞結構，並利用Thompson (1973) 裡提到的一些有關於動結式結構動詞的測試標準來測試「V-滿」結構。且提供了中文內「滿」的語意。接下來我將「V-滿」結構加以分類，分成:V-滿A，V-滿L，以及V-滿A+L結構三種類型，並測試其數量短語的句法結構。最後我利用不同的量詞短語去測試這三種不同類型的「V-滿」結構。結果發現: 「滿」帶給「V-滿」結構一個有上限的量，故需要時間、空間、或數量去滿足此一條件，否則違反「V-滿」的語意表現。

關鍵字

滿 ； V-滿

並列摘要

There are few literatures that discuss the V-man ‘full’ construction (e.g., xie-man ‘fill with writing’, ting-man ‘be filled with vehicles’, etc.) in Mandarin Chinese; one of them is Yi’s (2008) analysis, which gives us a rather clear structure of the V-man construction in Mandarin. However, there are still some flaws in Yi’s analysis toward the classification of two different types of the V-man construction. In addition, how nominal phrases which have different quantity expressions (e.g., exact quantity, distributive quantity, and vagueness quantity) and locations interact with the V-man construction is still unclear. In this thesis, I first discuss the syntactic structure of the V-man construction and propose that they are resultative verb compounds, based on Thompson’s (1973) work, and then give a semantic analysis of man in the V-man construction. Next, I provide a new categorization of three different types of the V-man construction: V-manA (A for amount reading), V-manL (L for locative reading), and V-manA+L construction (with both amount and locative reading) and discuss their syntactic behaviors. Finally, I test different quantity phrases with V-man constructions. I find that: 1.) The theme phrases are quantity-denoting in the V-manA constructions, and locative phrases with numerals are individual-denoting in the V-manA+L constructions. 2.) Man in the V-man constructions needs its internal argument to be an incremental theme. 3.) Man’s function in the V-manA construction gives a finished meaning. 4.) The element man in V-manL constructions gives a resultative meaning to the sentence. 5.) The meaning of man is ambiguous or depends on the context when the sentence has both a precise quantity and an obligatory location.

並列關鍵字

man 'full' ； V-man 'full' ； homomorphic relation

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