The Role of Force in Mandarin Verbs of Cutting

IF 0.3 N/A LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Taiwan Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2015-06-01 DOI:10.6519/TJL.2015.13(2).1

S. Hsiao

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Abstract

This study explores the semantic meaning of verbs of cutting in Mandarin; it also investigates whether the semantic component FORCE should be included in the denotation for distinguishing the fine-grained meanings among Mandarin verbs, including ＂diāo, qiē, xue(xiāo), duo, gē, kǎn, kē, jiǎn, pī and pǒ＂, broadly subsumed under the category of the CUT action events in English. To probe this issue, an on-line questionnaire was used along with a corpus-based analysis of cutting verbs with the following results. Firstly, the most commonly-used implicit categories that Mandarin native speakers use are INSTRUMENT, FORCE, DELICATENESS, and RESULT (SEPARATION). Secondly, based on the frequency of the participants' chosen words on FORCE-related items, kǎn (100%), duo (89%) and pī (86%) are the top three verbs used with respect to the semantic feature of FORCE. Lastly, the corpus analysis supports the hypothesis of V-C complementary distribution in native speakers' usage. The preliminary findings support the usage-based view of language (Barlow and Kemmer 2000) and can shed light on the cognitive constraint that implicitly and regularly appears in speakers' resultative compound usages.

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力在汉语切削动词中的作用

本研究探讨了汉语切削动词的语义意义;此外，本文还探讨了“diāo、qiue、xue(xiāo)、duo、gue、kǎn、kue、jiǎn、pue、pue”等广义上属于英语CUT动作事件范畴的汉语动词，其语义成分FORCE是否应该包含在外延中以区分其细粒度意义。为了探讨这个问题，我们使用了一份在线问卷，并对切削动词进行了基于语料库的分析，结果如下。首先，以普通话为母语的人最常用的隐性范畴是INSTRUMENT、FORCE、delicate和RESULT (SEPARATION)。其次，根据被试在FORCE相关项目上选择单词的频率，kǎn(100%)、duo(89%)和p ā(86%)是在FORCE语义特征方面使用最多的三个动词。最后，语料库分析支持了母语使用者语用中V-C互补分布的假设。初步研究结果支持了基于语言使用的观点(Barlow and Kemmer 2000)，并揭示了在说话者的结果复合用法中隐含且有规律地出现的认知约束。

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Taiwan Journal of Linguistics LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

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期刊介绍： Taiwan Journal of Linguistics is an international journal dedicated to the publication of research papers in linguistics and welcomes contributions in all areas of the scientific study of language. Contributions may be submitted from all countries and are accepted all year round. The language of publication is English. There are no restrictions on regular submission; however, manuscripts simultaneously submitted to other publications cannot be accepted. TJL adheres to a strict standard of double-blind reviews to minimize biases that might be caused by knowledge of the author’s gender, culture, or standing within the professional community. Once a manuscript is determined as potentially suitable for the journal after an initial screening by the editor, all information that may identify the author is removed, and copies are sent to at least two qualified reviewers. The selection of reviewers is based purely on professional considerations and their identity will be kept strictly confidential by TJL. All feedback from the reviewers, except such comments as may be specifically referred to the attention of the editor, is faithfully relayed to the authors to assist them in improving their work, regardless of whether the paper is to be accepted, accepted upon minor revision, revised and resubmitted, or rejected.

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