期刊论文

On the Grammatical Motivation of Passive Marker’s Appearance

中文

语言研究

1000-1263

2004

24

4

112-118

本校为第一机构

汉语的被动表达可以不用标记。但为什么会产生被动标记,汉语方言的被动标记为什么庞杂而不成熟,从被动标记本体是难以找到答案的。文章相信被动标记的产生有着简单而统一的根本原因。汉语的语序结构类型是 SVO 型,汉语的话题结构是话题—述题。当受事做话题时,这两种结构是不一致的。这就导致有时必须用标记来标明句首的受事,而推动被动标记发展的语法动因则是标记自身的语法化进程。

The passive markers are not necessary in Chinese passive expressions. But why do the passive markers appeare in Chinese, and why are the markers numerous in number and imperfect in Chinese dialects? The answer is hard to be found in the passive markers system itself. In this essay, it is believed that the appearance of the passive markers has a fundamental reason, simple and unified. In Chinese the word structure is SVO while the topic structure is topic-comment when a patient serves as the topic, the two structure may disagree. As result, pass...