汉语开放等级形容词的语义特征对句法表现的影响

现代汉语中开放等级形容词具有特定的语义特征,即本身不含一个内在的标准点,必须依据上下文或语境来确定一个标准。受开放等级形容词语义特征的影响,开放等级形容词所形成的形容词谓语句可以表示两种状态变化义和一种预期结果偏离义,并且对开放等级形容词短语本身,以及与其同现的修饰短语和开放等级形容词做补语等句法格式中的表现都有一定影响。

The Semantic Features of Open Scale Gradable Adjective and its Influence on Syntax in Mandarin

This paper first discussed the semantic features of open scale gradable adjective,namely,it does not have an inherit standard and must rely on the context for a standard.As a result of this semantic feature,the open scale gradable adjective predicate sentence possesses two change-of-sate interpretations and one excessive result reading.Furthermore,this semantic characteristic also have influence upon the syntactic behavior of open scale adjectives in many syntactic configurations,including the adjectival phrase structure,the modifying prepositional structure and the verb complement structure.