【作者】 王劼；

【导师】 王军；

【作者基本信息】 苏州大学 ， 英语语言文学， 2007， 硕士

【摘要】 复合词是语言中非常能产的一种造词方式,是语言学界长期关注的一个重要话题,而名词+名词的复合方式因其数量众多、语义合成方式复杂更成为各类复合词研究的焦点。尽管对名词+名词复合词的研究可以从各个不同的角度展开,但有一点似乎是研究者们的共识,即名词+名词复合词是两个(或多个)独立的名词形式或概念经过合成产生的。单纯形式上的讨论往往仅局限于中心词与修饰语的关系问题,而且对于英语来说,这种形式关系比较单纯,只有修饰语+中心词这一种,因此,较深入的研究往往都要涉及语义或概念因素。在对汉语进行了认真细致的研究之后,帕卡德(Packard)提出了结构中心与语义中心的复合词研究的新思路,这在进一步拓展复合词研究的同时,也在分析某些特殊的复合词时产生了新的问题,这些问题产生的根源就是所谓的语义中心都是基于真值条件所作出的判断,然而某些复合词成分的真值却是无法判定的。有鉴于此,本文结合汉语特殊的复合词类型的语义构成方式,提出用语义焦点来替代语义中心,并且把对复合词成分的语义角色地位的判定放在一定的语言语境中去考察,而不是像传统的方法那样用脱离语境的方式去孤立地考察复合词的构成。更多还原

【Abstract】 Compounding is a very productive means of creating new words, and has been regarded as a hot topic in the linguistic field for a long time. Among all the types of compounds, N1+N2 compounds are very large in number in both English and Chinese and very complex in meaning construction, so quite a lot of researches have been conducted on this particular type. Although N1+N2 compounds can be investigated from a variety of perspectives, there is one common viewpoint among the researchers, that is, N1+N2 compounds are normally derived from two (or more) separate noun forms or concepts after a process of meaning combination. In English, when only linguistic form is considered there seems to be only one simple modifier+head construction. So semantic factor can hardly be taken away if more in-depth or comprehensive research shall be conducted. After detailed and careful analysis of large Chinese data, Packard set the distinction between structural head and semantic head. As a brand-new line of thoughts this distinction brings convenience to the study of Chinese N1+N2 compounds. However, it also has serious problems when it is applied to some special Chinese compounds. The root cause of the problems is that the judgment of semantic head is totally based on truth value condition, while the truth value of some types of compounds can not be definitely specified. So, considering the peculiar features of some Chinese compounds in meaning construction, we propose the concept of focus to replace the original concept of semantic head, and emphasize the importance of locating the focus within a certain context rather than specifying the head in decontextualized manner.更多还原