物质事件的事态化研究

依据系统功能语法定义的六种过程类型和“过程函数”(过程=限定+事件),过程的核心构件就是事件,因而存在六种过程(物质和意识、言语和行为、存在和关系)就会存在六种事件(物理和心理、言语和行为、存在和关系)。在复合过程中,一种事件构成另一事件的事态,引起事态化现象。事态化的结果形成两种类型的实际事件使用角色,即过程事件和事态事件。研究过程,事件是焦点;研究事件,事件之间的事态化组合是焦点。本研究聚焦物质事件的事态组合,分析物质事件内部的分化和重组,并且采用英国国家语料库(BNC)作为语料来源,以BEGIN为例进行实证演示。希望借此更加深入地探究事件的功能语义研究。 

On Material Eventualization

According to the six function types defined by systemic functional grammar and the“process function”(Process = Finite+ Event), the core element of the function is the event, so, if there exist six types of function(material and mental, verbal and behavioral, existential and relational), there exist six types of event(physical and psychological, verbal and behavioral, existential and relational). In a complex process, one event constitutes a state of affair or an eventuality of another event. This phenomenon is referred to as eventualization, which gives rise to two roles of the event in its actual linguistic use, i.e., process event and eventual event. For the research on the process, the event is the focus; for the research on the event, the combinatory relation between different events is the major concern. The present research concentrates on the combination of different material events, analyzes their differentiation and re-organization, and makes an empirical demonstration with linguistic data relevant to the event BEGIN taken from the British National Corpus. It aims to make a functional semantic exploration into the event as a whole.