RECONSTRUCTION OF LANGUAGE-MODEL IN THE CONCEPT OF CONTINUITY -FROM ASPECTS OF STUDIES ON GERMAN-

人类的语言是清晰的和离散的，我们任意划分连续的世界。发音有两个方面。一个是将事物分开，与离散性相关。另一个是分组，与连续性有关。连续性参与了范畴化的基本认知活动。我们并不认识我们单独感知和体验的事物，而是通过提取共性和注意相似性来将事物组织成组。这种范畴化活动与概念化和意义建构有着密切的关系。集合到同一类别中的所有成员并不相等。典型性的程度从被认为是原型的到可疑的是有等级的。类别之间的界限不清楚。我们研究了以下几个问题：句法中的原型范畴;模糊限制语在语篇中的出现和功能;关联词和施事的语料分析;语言层次的变化;西弗里斯兰语与德语、荷兰语和英语的语法结构比较;通过对运动动词的分析，对连续性进行了理论定位，重新评价了离散性作为语义功能原则的地位;词边界音融合的非线性音系学分析;语气词的句法关系和语义连续性;语篇和语篇的句法连贯和语义衔接。

Human language is articulated and discrete, and we arbitrarily divide the continuous world. Articulation has two aspects. One is to separate things and is relevant to discreteness. The other is to group things and is relevant to continuity. Continuity participates in the fundamental cognitive activity of categorization. We do not recognize things which we perceive and experience individually, but do organize things into groups by extracting generality and noticing similarities. This activity of categorization has close relationship with conceptualization and sense-making. All members gathered into the same category are not equivalent. There are gradations in the degree of typicality from the one considered prototype to questionable ones. Boundaries between categories are not clear. We have studied the following problems :prototype categories in syntax ; the appearance and function of hedge expressions in discourse ; corpus analysis of conjunctions and agentivity involved in tansitivity ; changes over language levels ; grammatical structures of West Frisian by comparison with German, Dutch and English ; the theoretical positioning of continuity by the analysis of movement verbs, and the revaluation of discreteness as the principle of semantic functions ; nonlinear-phonological analysis of sound-fusion in the word boundary ; the syntactic relation and semantic continuity of modal words ; syntactic coherence and semantic cohesion in text and discourse.