中国語と日本語の分裂構文における構文的拡張 : 存在・所有の意味の継承を中心に

Abstract

"Within the framework of Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1995), constructions occurring in the same network are linked by inheritance relations and they can become polysemous through extensions from a prototype category. For example, there is a Chinese construction “you de shi X” (What they have is X). It is a combination of the possessive construction “you” and the cleft construction. Its meaning contains the information of large quantity as well as possession. However, the parallel construction in Japanese conveys the possessive meaning only. This study aims to investigate the differences in the extensions and the motivation of cleft constructions between Chinese and Japanese. The results reveal that the extension of construction in Chinese is more developed compared to Japanese. The differences in the motivation of extension depend on the rhetoric expressions of “you” and the metonymy of “de” in the Chinese cleft construction."