Semantic Function of Predicational Adjunction in the Event Structure

本文从事件语义学的角度出发，假设增量式的认知产出过程足以产生一些派生的英语家族构式，如结果结构、事件类型转换现象、不及物运动构式、与格变化和进行性成就，其中句子的及物性和致使性不仅仅由主动词的语义属性来分配，其次，本文分析了结果谓语句的语义功能和结果中心语所实现的因果关系的有效性，并得出结论：结果谓语句作为BECOME事件的事件论元，应逐步衡量动词所表达的活动性，这种量化功能倾向于派生出动词子事件和构式子事件之间的因果关系，隐含着语义解释中的因果关系。

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.