How synchronic gradience makes sense in the light of language change (and vice versa)
How synchronic gradience makes sense in the light of language change (and vice versa)
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鉴于语言变化，同步梯度如何有意义（反之亦然）
DOI：
10.1075/tsl.90.09ros
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发表时间：
2010
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通讯作者：
A. Rosenbach
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作者：
A. Rosenbach
本文提出了一种历时研究共时梯度的方法，该方法是基于构式的句法和语义不匹配而提出的。本文提出的另一个核心观点是，句法梯度并不局限于形态句法重叠，而可能由语义重叠构成(Pace Aart，2007)。更确切地说，本文认为带天才的结构(约翰的父亲，一个空闲的来访者的椅子)和名词+名词结构(如布什政府的戏票)之间存在着梯度，这源于它们有共同的某些语义特征，但它们的形态结构仍然是不同的。基于语料库的定量分析表明，随着时间的推移，这些构式逐渐采用了其他构式的语义特征。这一过程是由英语历史上各种“桥接结构”的存在而促成的。
The present paper argues for a diachronic approach to synchronic gradience which is based on a mismatch between the syntax and the semantics of constructions. Another central claim made in this paper is that syntactic gradience is not confined to morphosyntactic overlap but may be constituted by semantic overlap (pace Aarts 2007). More precisely, it is argued that there is gradience between constructions with genitives (John’s father, a spare visitor’s chair) and noun+noun constructions (theatre ticket, Bush administration), which stems from their sharing certain semantic features, while their morphosyntax remains distinct. Based on a quantitative corpus analysis it is shown that the constructions gradually come to adopt semantic features of the other construction over time. This process is facilitated by the presence of various ‘bridging constructions’ in the history of English.