日语的名词性结构作谓语时,理解整个句子的句意不仅需要准确把握名词性谓语本身的语义,往往还要从语用学及语法化等角度进行考虑。本文着重探讨了日语名词性结构作谓语的一种特殊形式——人鱼句,通过对其语义扩张进行分析,进而归纳出了两种不同的语义功能。
When a nominal construction in Japanese functions as a predicate, to interpret the meaning of the entire sentence requires to understand the semantic meaning of the nominative predicate. Also, pragmatics and grammaticalization need to be considered. This study focuses on a special nominative predicate of Japanese called Mermaid Construction. Through analyzing its semantic expansion, two specific semantic functions are observed.
Tsunoda, T. (2013) Mermaid Construction: An Introduction and Summary. Adnominal Clauses and the “Mermaid” Construction: Grammaticalization of Nouns, 15-66.