The role of sound-symbolic forms in Motion event descriptions: The case of Japanese
The role of sound-symbolic forms in Motion event descriptions: The case of Japanese
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声音符号形式在运动事件描述中的作用：以日语为例
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10.1075/rcl.10.1.03tor
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2012
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K. Toratani
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本文讨论了声音符号形式在运动事件描述中所起的作用，并以日语中的拟态符号形式为例。对文学文本的考察表明，拟态不仅作为另一种共事指定形式的次要成分出现，而且还作为小句中唯一的共事指定成分出现。作为后者，模仿表达方式、伴随和同时结果，即共同事件可以与主运动事件具有的八种关系中的三种(Talmy，2000)。这一有限的能力表明，它们不是日语中主要的联合事件指定形式。然而，它们在运动事件描述中扮演着重要的角色，因为它们：(I)提供了不可缺少的词汇语义信息，被赋予了丰富的意义(例如，在方式上的速率)，平行的巴斯克动作模仿词(Ibarretxe-Antunano，2006)；(Ii)通过与各种动词/谓词组合来增加场景的细微差别，超越了经常被引用的搭配对，如ytiyoti aruku[蹒跚学步][toddle]。
This article discusses the role played by sound-symbolic forms (SSFs) in Motion event descriptions, focusing on the case of mimetics — SSFs — in Japanese. An examination of literary texts shows that mimetics occur not only as the secondary element to another Co-event specifying form but also as the sole Co-event specifying element of the clause. As the latter, mimetics express Manner, Concomitance and Concurrent Result, i.e., three out of the eight relations a Co-event can have with the main Motion event (Talmy, 2000). This limited capability suggests that they are not the principal Co-event specifying form of Japanese. Nevertheless, they play an important role in Motion event descriptions as they: (i) supply indispensable lexical semantic information, being laden with rich meanings (e.g., rate in Manner) that parallel Basque movement imitatives (Ibarretxe-Antunano, 2006); (ii) add nuances to a scene by combining with a diverse range of verbs/predicates, going beyond oft-cited collocational pairs such as yotiyoti aruku [toddling walk] ‘toddle’.