【摘要】 汉英都存在利用动词本身表达动量的现象,这类词可称为“动词动量”。动词动量在汉语中是“V一V”结构中的后一个V,在英语中是“轻动词+a+VVC”结构中从其同形动词转化而来的VVC。本文在分析汉英动词动量允准条件的基础上,进行异同比较,结果发现:1)二者的相同点在于:倾向单音节词,不带时态或语态标记,表达短时且少量的含义,属于基本语义域;2)不同点在于:英语动词动量前面有不定冠词,可以被形容词修饰,可以用代词替换,具有更强的指称性;3)主要动因是双语中言者需要进行细腻化表达,并通过转类和仿拟构词在形式上加以实现。更多还原

【Abstract】 Both Chinese and English have verbs expressing self-motion momentum such as frequency, duration and intensity of the action, thus shortened as verbs used for verbal classifiers(VVCs). VVCs appear as the second verb in the Chinese construction of “V yi V” and nouns converted from their cognate verbs in the English construction of “light verb + a + N”. Based on the analysis of constrictions, the present article makes a comparative study of VVCs between Chinese and English and arrives the following conclusions: 1) VVCs in both languages are similar in that they are mostly monosyllabic ones without tense or voice markers and express actions of a short duration and small quantity; 2) English VVCs have a stronger referential feature in terms of event momentum as they are usually preceded by the indefinite article “a”, and can be modified by adjectives or replaced by pronouns; and 3) VVCs are used to convey the speaker’s precise expressions and realized by means of conversion and mimetic word formation.更多还原