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The Restriction Factors And Cognitive Interpretation On Semantic Derivation Of The Directional Complement "Chu/Chulai"

Posted on:2016-02-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R N LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330464473647Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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The directional verb "chu" and "chulai" can do the center of predicate and directional complement.The directional verb "chu" and "chulai" that express the action subject moves outward from inside, containing the action mode of tendency when it making the center of predicate. Unlike the "lai" in "chulai", which is specified the action observation-it towards the moving direction of the speaker. As predicate’s center, directional verb "chu" in two ways:automatic word, said the movement of the body; another is cause verb, said the movement of the object. The automatic word "chu", as the center of predicate, can be marked as [+the move way,+from the inside to outside,+move]. The automatic word "chulai", as the center of predicate, can be marked as [+the move way,+from the inside to outside,+towards foothold,+move]. The cause word "chu", as the center of predicate, can be marked as [+the move way,+cause,+from the inside to outside,+move].Compared to the predicate verbs "chu" and "chulai", the Directional complements "chu" and "chulai" do not contain the action moving way that expressed by the andex center verb. And all the directional verb "chu", as complements, are the automatic words that don’t have the meaning of "cause" itself. Therefore, the directional complement "chu" can be maked as [+from the inside to outside,+move], the directional complement "chulai" can be maked as[+from the inside to outside,+towards foothold,+ move].It is said that the basic directional meaning of directional complement "chu/chulai" mean the body of the action of objective existence from the objective locative moved to outside. This is grouped with by the semantic features of the necessary components in sentence. The feature of the moving body [+specific,+existing], the locative [+specific] and the verb [+displacement], which is specified the indispensable factor of actual displacement by the directional complements "chu" and "chulai".The basic directional meaning of Directional complement "chu" should be marked as[+from the inside to outside,+specific displacement]. The basic directional meaning of Directional complement "chulai" should be marked as [+from the inside to outside,+ towards foothold,+specific displacement]. The extended meaning of the directional complements "chu/chulai",as follows,① abstract displaceable meaning;② the result meaning from hidden to reveal;③ the result meaning grow out from nothing; ④more than. The abstract displaceable meaning of "chu" can be marked as [+from the inside to outside,-specific displacement]. The abstract displaceable meaning of "chulai" can be marked as[+from the inside to outside,+towards foothold,-specific displacement]. The result meaning from hidden to reveal of "chu/chulai" can be marked as[+from hidden to reveal].The result meaning grow out from nothing of "chu/chulai" can be marked as [+grow out from nothing].The directional complements "chu/chulai" have two restrict factors of abstract meaning that extended by basic directional meaning. First, adnex verbs are moving verbs and transfer relationship verbs. Second, there is one must be abstract between the moving subject or location. Or the two,are abstract between the moving subject or location at the same time. The directional complements "chu/chulai" have two restrict factors of result meaning that extended by expressed directional meaning. First, it isn’t moving verbs, or adjective, but non-moving verbs. Second, it is not used in comparative sentence. The directional complements "chu/chulai" have three restrict factors that extended to more than form directional meaning. First, the predicate is adjective. Second, the boundary line, used for the baseline of comparison, is not location but the personal pronoun or noun. Third, it is used in comparative sentence.The abstract displaceable meanings of "chu/chulai" is not only the metaphorical projection of it’s specific displaceable meaning, but also the result that the specific conceptual framework is applied to abstract conceptual framework. In this process, although some characteristics that is the image schemas’s elements of it’s prototypical meaning have changed, such as, not only TR or LM is abstract, but displacement is abstract, the relation between them and elements have been inherited. The image schemas’s elements of it’s abstract displacement meanings also have three points:TR, LM, path. The relationship between TR and LM remains:before the action, TR is in the LM; after the action, TR is outside the LM.The source domain is from the displaceable meanings of "chu/chulai". The target domain is from the result meaning of from hidden to reveal. The result meaning is the result that mapping from source domain to target domain. The displacement change of object in source domain is mapped to the state’s change that from hidden to reveal in target domain. In the mapping process, the relationship between the components in source domain and other components remains, but the target domain that the verbs isn’t express displacement also have changed the verb’s characteristics of source domain. Therefore, the change of objects of source domain, before and after the action, stayed in target domain. And the displacement’s process of source domain is corresponding to the changing process of condition in target domain.The result meaning grow out from nothing that is target domain is based on the result meaning from hidden to reveal that is source domain. Although, the relationship between the components of source domain and others, have been kept, some features of source domain have been changed by target domain. In source domain, the properties of the objects, before and after the action, have been stayed. In target domain, the objects, before and after the action, is not the same. So the directional complements "chu/chulai" is extended to the result meaning grow out from nothing with a view to appearance of new objects.
Keywords/Search Tags:directional complement "Chu/Chulai", semantic derivation, The restriction factors and cognitive interpretation
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