The Ergativization of the Verb 死si(Die) in Chinese Language History

摘要：

　　This paper investigates the Ergativization of the Chinese verb 死si(die)(the same below)in Chinese Language History based on the Ergativization theory of Lemmens (1998).Ergativization refers to the process of transitive or intransitive verb entering the ergative structure.The semantic change of verbs led to change of syntactic structure,and 死 experienced the evolution from intransitive verb to semi intransitive verb from ancient Chinese to modern Chinese.Its original syntax structure 死+relational object in the Qin and Han Dynasty also changed into V+死+object.The 死+object structure appearing after the Song Dynasty made the verb 死 turn into a real Ergative verb.

关键词： Unaccusative verb Ergativization

作者: Yichen Zhang

作者单位: Department of Chinese,FAH,University of Macau,Macau,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: Chinese Lexical Semantics 15th Workshop(CLSW 2014)(第十五届汉语词汇语义学国际研讨会)

会议地点: 澳门

会议语种:中文

页码: 124-133

在线出版日期: 2014-06-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）