Activation of the Stativity in Chinese AABB -Type Noun Reduplication Forms

Abstract

This paper considers the phenomenon that, among the AABB -type noun reduplication forms of Mandarin Chinese, one part of them activates stativity. The state that can be expressed by the AABB -type noun reduplication form is ‘distributed state’, which is derived from the abundance meaning of the noun reduplication forms, and it describes the situation in which a large number of objects are distributed over a certain area. This paper points out three fundamental features of the distributed state, (i) the distributed state must depict the area which is covered with the objects, (ii) the individuality of the objects that form the distribution must be pushed into the background, (iii) this usage connotes an ‘abnormal state’. The distributed state is a concept with constant universality and is observed in some phenomena other than the AABB -type noun reduplication form. (This article is in Chinese.)提要本文考察名詞重疊 AABB 式中個別成員凸顯狀態性的情況。名詞重疊 AABB 式表達的狀態義是一種“遍布狀態”。遍布狀態是在名詞重疊 AABB 式的基本語法意義“多量”的基礎上顯現出來的，即在多量事物構成的集合體覆蓋著某一領域時凸顯出來的狀態義。通過詳細分析，我們發現，名詞 AABB 表達遍布狀態時必須具備以下三個語義特徵：以多量事物的所在領域為描寫對象；構成集合體的多量事物必須喪失個體性；帶有“不同尋常”的含義。遍布狀態並不是孤立的、特設的概念，而是一個具有跨語言的普遍意義的概念。