Inter-relationship between construction and meaning in historical changes of sensory adjectives: a contrastive corpus-based research from a cognitive typological perspective

这项研究侧重于感官形容词，这些形容词从词源上源于感觉和知觉，是最原始的身体经验，并通过显著反映说话人或作者对情况的解释而延伸。感觉形容词的语义随着人类的经验和概念结构的变化而变化；这些意义的变化是通过句法和结构的转换而发生的，例如从形容词到副词再到话题成分。本研究观察了语义-语用和句法方面是如何超越显性句法范畴的相互作用的，并从认知的角度系统地解释了意义和句法结构之间的关系。这项研究还表明了本文所采用的经验方法的有效性，使用了泛时(共时和历时方法的结合)、跨语言(类型学上遥远的语言之间的比较)和基于语料库的(使用大量、平衡的数据)方法。

This research focuses on sensory adjectives that etymologically derive from sensation and perception, the most primitive bodily experiences, and extend by significantly reflecting the speaker or writer's way of construing the situation. Sensory adjectives semantically change according to human experiences and conceptual structures; these changes in meaning occur through syntactic and constructional transitions, e.g., from adjective through adverb to topicalized element. This study observes how semantic-pragmatic and syntactic aspects interact beyond apparent syntactic categories, and it provides systematic accounts from a cognitive viewpoint to elucidate the relationship between meaning and syntactic construction. The study also shows the validity of the empirical approach adopted here, using panchronic (integration of the synchronic and diachronic approaches), cross-linguistic (comparison between typologically distant languages), and corpus-based (use of large, balanced data) methods.