Semantic Function of Predicational Adjunction in the Event Structure

本研究从事件语义学的角度出发，假设递增过程在认知上是有效的，可以产生一些衍生的英语家庭结构，如结果句、事件类型转换现象、不及物移位结构、与格交替结构、进行式成就句等，其中及物性和使役不是由主动词的语义属性来分配的，也不是由构式的语义属性决定的，而是通过次动词的递增过程来表达的。其次，我展示了结果表示成分的语义功能以及这些结构的结果中心语所实现的因果关系的有效性。并得出结论：动结式谓词作为成为事件的事件论元，应该递增地度量动词所表达的活动，这种量化功能倾向于衍生出动词性次事件和构式次事件的因果关系，这在语义解释中隐含了因果关系。

Throughout this study from the viewpoint of event semantics, I hypothesized that the incremental process was cognitively productive enough for some derivational English family constructions to emerge, such as resultatives, event-type shifting phenomena, intransitive motion constructions, dative alternations, and progressive achievements, where transitivity and causation of the sentence were not assigned only by the semantic property of the main verb, nor that of the construction, but were formulated through the incremental process of subevents.Next, I showed the semantic function of result-denoting constituents and the validity of the causal relation realized by the result heads of those constructions, and concluded that the resultative predicate as an event argument of the BECOME event should incrementally measure the activity the verb expressed, and such quantizing function tended to give derivationally the cause-effect relationship to the verbal subevent and the constructional one, which implied causation in the semantic interpretation.