Typological research into the correlations between constructions and event structures in Asian Languages

本研究的目的是运用构式分析中的语言类型学方法，进行跨语言动词语义分析，并对事件结构变异的跨语言模式进行考察和类型化。这项研究的数据主要来自亚洲语言，而亚洲语言在语言共性理论中往往被忽视，并经常对其构成问题，本研究的研究成果有望从亚洲语言学的角度重新审视事件结构理论。项目组制定了详细的研究计划，收集了有关亚洲语言的相关参考著作/论文，并对其进行了讨论和审查，以将研究成果写成论文发表。该团队的类型学研究主要集中在两个主题领域，即动结式和主语/指示语的语法化/常规化。该团队还讨论了这种…的一些影响主要研究成果如下：1)对动结式的功能和结构进行了原型定义，从理论上分析了动结式的跨语言差异；2)对与动结式相关的结构进行了语言和/或语法化的对比研究；泰语中动结式的语法化；英语、普通话和泰语中的杀戮动词；(3)从功能上界定了汉语和泰语的语言主观性，并确定了其跨语言的结构表现模式。运动指示语、体验者指示语和社交指示语的语法化程度呈现出跨语言差异的三种表达形式，即运动表达、内部状态表达和名词性指称，已经被仔细研究，并提出了一些主观性倾向和隐含共性。较少

The purpose of this study has been to conduct cross-linguistic verbal semantic analyses, and examine and typologize cross-linguistic patterns of variation of event structures, by utilizing linguistic typological methods of construction analyses. The data for this study comes mainly from Asian languages, which have been mostly ignored in, and often pose problems to, language universal theories, and the research results of this study are expected to serve to reexamine event structure theories from Asian linguistic perspectives.The project team has made a detailed research plan, collected relevant reference works/papers on, and a wide range of data from, Asian languages, and discussed and examined them to write up the research findings into papers for publication. The team's typological research has focused around two main topic areas, namely, resultative constructions and grammaticalization/conventionalization of subjectivity/deixis. The team has also discussed some implications of such … More linguistic typologies on the study of other language typologies.Some of the research results are as follows :i)Functional and structural definitions of resultative constructions have been made prototype-theoretically for cross-linguistic comparison, and several factors contributing to their cross-linguistic variation have been identified.ii)Some contrastive linguistic and/or grammaticalization research have been made on constructions related to the resulative construction ; grammaticalization of directional verbs as resultatives in Thai ; verbs of killing in English, Mandarin Chinese and Thai ; networks of polysemy of the verb GIVE in Mandarin Chinese and Thai.iii)Linguistic subjectivity has been functionally defined and its cross-linguistic structural patterns of manifestation have been identified. The three types of expressions, namely, motion expressions, internal state expressions and nominal references, which tend to show cross-linguistic variation in the degree of grammaticalization of motion deixis, experiencer deixis, and social deixis, respectively, have been closely examined, and some subjectivity clines and implicational universals have been proposed. Less