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引用次数: 6
摘要
De Smet等人(2018)提出,当功能相似的结构重叠时,可能会发生类比吸引。分化也可能如此,但这个过程涉及到对其他子网的吸引,而且是“偶然的”和“例外的”。我认为分化所起的作用比De Smet等人所认为的要重要得多。我的案例研究是消极和有益的替代方案的发展。替代替代的兴起(例如,“给予撒克逊人土地”~“给予撒克逊人土地”)已被证明发生在1400年至1500年之间的中世纪英语中(Zehentner 2018)。在Zehentner和Traugott(2020)的基础上,从历史建构主义的角度分析了1650年早期现代英语中有益交替(例如,“为她建房子”~“为她建房子”)的兴起,并将其与替代交替的兴起进行了比较。交替的历史例证了重叠的功能相似建筑的兴起,并表明彼此之间的差异与吸引力一样重要。吸引和分化都发生在几个抽象层面:动词特定结构、图式和更大的系统变化。
The intertwining of differentiation and attraction as exemplified by the history of recipient transfer and benefactive alternations
Abstract De Smet et al. (2018) propose that when functionally similar constructions come to overlap, analogical attraction may occur. So may differentiation, but this process involves attraction to other subnetworks and is both “accidental” and “exceptional”. I argue that differentiation plays a considerably more significant role than De Smet et al. allow. My case study is the development of the dative and benefactive alternations. The rise of the dative alternation (e.g., “gave the Saxons land” ∼ “gave land to the Saxons”) has been shown to occur in later Middle English between 1400 and 1500 (Zehentner 2018). Building on Zehentner and Traugott (2020), the rise of the benefactive alternation (e.g., “build her a house” ∼ “build a house for her”) in Early Modern English c1650 is analyzed from a historical constructionalist perspective and compared with the rise of the dative alternation. The histories of the alternations exemplify the rise of functionally similar constructions that overlap, and show that differentiation from each other plays as large a role as attraction. Both attraction and differentiation occur at several levels of abstraction: verb-specific constructions, schemas and larger systemic changes.
期刊介绍:
Cognitive Linguistics presents a forum for linguistic research of all kinds on the interaction between language and cognition. The journal focuses on language as an instrument for organizing, processing and conveying information. Cognitive Linguistics is a peer-reviewed journal of international scope and seeks to publish only works that represent a significant advancement to the theory or methods of cognitive linguistics, or that present an unknown or understudied phenomenon. Topics the structural characteristics of natural language categorization (such as prototypicality, cognitive models, metaphor, and imagery); the functional principles of linguistic organization, as illustrated by iconicity; the conceptual interface between syntax and semantics; the experiential background of language-in-use, including the cultural background; the relationship between language and thought, including matters of universality and language specificity.