英语话语标记语之构式语法分析——以“Imean”为例

话语标记语“Imean”有多种语用功能意义。在构式语法的框架下，试图把“Imean”作为一个构式来研究，分析其形式、意义、功能，然后在此基础上提出“Imean”的形成是一个语法化的结果这样一个假设，是从第一人称的动补构式[verb＋complement]语法化为话语标记语构式[discoursemarker]。构式语法可以成功解释语法化的诱因。这样的分析可促进运用构式语法对话语标记语的研究，同时也显示出构式语法的强大解释力。

English Discourse Marker Revisited: A Constructional Approach

As a discourse marker,I mean takes on various functional meanings,which were mainly approached by pragmatics.Under the framework of Construction Grammar,this paper approaches I mean as a construction and analyzes its pairing of form and function(or meaning).Then upon the preceding basis,a hypothesis concerning the formation of I mean is proposed that I mean is the outcome of grammaticalization process,with schematic [verb+complement] construction gradually grammaticalized into schematic [discourse marker] c...