The Syntactic Realization Of Duplicate Verb Structure And The Dynamic Semantic Case In Chinese

Based on the theoretical background of Cognitive Grammar and Semantic Grammar, disregarding the old framework of Formal Grammar, and starting from the semantic viewpoint, a comprehensive study is done on the Chinese N₁+VP₁+VP₂ structure in this paper.On the basis of the Verb Nucleus Theory, the concepts of original events and expressive events are put forward in this paper, and by the different semantic relationship of expressive events after the re-combination of the original events, the isomorphic structure of N₁ + VP₁+VP₂ in Chinese is classified into three types, simple sentence, duplicate verb structure and complex sentence. When VP₁ and VP₂ are realized as nucleus verbs and form inherent semantic relationship in the context, VP₁+VP₂ will re-combine into a expressive event, and they correspond to duplicate verb structure syntactically.The concepts of static semantic case (SSC) and dynamic semantic case (DSC) are put forward in this paper, i.e., the semantic case introduced by a preposition is called SSC, and that introduced by a verb is called DSC. Two or more definite verbs may coexist in a sentence in Chinese, therefore, the form of its semantic case may be either SSC or DSC, and the syntactic realization of DSC in Chinese is the duplicate verb structure N₁+VP₁+VP₂.Starting from the cognitive viewpoint, it is a initial work to analyze the perspective cause of how the different DSCs become the perspective points through the speakers' perspective choice, and to discuss the inhesional mechanism of the formation of duplicate verb structure N₁ + VP₁+VP₂ in Chinese.A DSC system of 4 classes and 25 types in Chinese is established in this paper, and it is pointed out that the Chinese DSC system is syntactically in the intermediate state of the dynamic system. If the predicate property of V₁ tends to weaken and functionize, the final result of the change is that it will become a prepositional mark.