Case Marking and the Semantics of Mental Verbs
Case Marking and the Semantics of Mental Verbs
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格标记和心理动词的语义
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10.1007/978-94-011-1972-6_5
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1993
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W. Bruce Croft
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W. Bruce Croft
鉴于一种情况或事态被分解为一个谓语和一个或多个论元，关于哪个论元被分配给谓语的简单主动语态形式的主语位置，跨语言的差异非常小。2绝大多数谓语在所有语言中都将相同的论元分配给主语位置，无论“主语”表现为主格还是作格（及物主语）格、词序或动词一致。这是真实的，尽管事实上，在主题作用方面，分配给主题位置的论点是相当不同的很多。这对任何基于语义的主语分配理论提出了挑战，因为这种理论试图避免简单地规定哪个论元被分配给主语位置。本文将说明一个语义模型的动词意义，回答这一挑战，通过检查跨语言的分配主语位置的一类谓词，不同的主题分配不同的语言，心理动词。
Given the decomposition of a situation or state of affairs into a predicate and one or more arguments, there is surprisingly little cross-linguistic variation as to which argument is assigned to subject position of the simple active voice form of the predicate.2 The vast majority of predicates assign the same argument to subject position in all languages, whether ‘subject’ is manifested as nominative or ergative (transitive subject) case, by word order, or by verb agreement. This is true despite the fact that in terms of thematic role, the arguments assigned to subject position are quite a varied lot. This poses a challenge to any semantically-based theory of subject assignment that attempts to avoid simple stipulation of which argument is assigned to subject position. This paper will illustrate a semantic model of verb meaning that answers this challenge, by examining cross-linguistically the assignment to subject position of a class of predicates that do vary in subject assignment across languages, mental verbs.