The Grammatical Encoding And Semantic Foundation Of Psychological Predicate

This article is about psychological predicate. It is researched based on the isomorphism between form and meaning. Firstly, we emphasize the relation between the coding method of psychological predicate and its semantic foundation. Then we discuss the relation between the meaning of psychological predicate and the coding method of its substantive or predicate objects.Based on the semantic aspect and morphosyntactic aspect of transitivity proposed by Tsunoda, the inside of psychological predicate exists a continuous process of transitivity from high to low. This process has the consistency with the changing process of psychological predicate from initiative to passivity and its intention from outside to inside. Then we use three modes to show this consistency.During the process of discussing the transitivity of psychological predicate, we analyze the object type of psychological predicate and discover the transitivity of psychological predicate is not the only factor which influences the object type. After further analysis, we propose that psychological predicate influences the substantive or predicate objects through four parts:control,factuality,reification,positive significance and negative significance. This also reflects the relativity between form and meaning.When discussing the psychological predicate, we find two interesting forms:"four-without-one "and "very much+psychological predicate+object". And few predecessors study these phenomena, so this article describes these two forms in detail.