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

本研究主要关注词源上源于感觉和知觉的感官形容词，这是最原始的身体体验，并通过显著反映说话者或作者解释情况的方式而扩展。感官形容词的语义随人的经验和概念结构而变化；这些意义的变化是通过句法和结构的转换发生的，例如，从形容词到副词再到话题化元素。本研究观察了语义-语用和句法在表面句法范畴之外的相互作用，并从认知的角度对意义与句法结构之间的关系进行了系统的阐释。该研究还显示了本文采用的经验方法的有效性，该方法使用了泛时（共时和历时方法的整合）、跨语言（类型学上遥远的语言之间的比较）和基于语料库（使用大型、平衡的数据）的方法。

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.