A Comparative Study Of Lexicalization Patterns Of Displacement Events In Chinese And Uyghur

Motion event is one of the most basic and important empirical activities of human beings.The phenomenon of spatial motion is widespread in the real world,and the perception and conceptualization of motion event is an important cognitive activity of human beings.How different languages represent the real world,for linguists,motion event provides a window for people to study language and cognition.Taking the motion event as the starting point,and taking the semantic elements of the concepts in the motion event as the basis of comparison,this paper compared and analyzed the lexicalization and coding patterns of the motion event between Chinese and Uyghur language.It also explained the causes of the differences between these two language's coding patterns from the perspective of cognition and linguistic typology.The paper is divided into six chapters.The first chapter is the introduction.It mainly summarizes the reasons for choosing the topic,defines what is motion,motion event and related concepts,clarifies the basis of comparison,and introduces the research methods,research purpose,research significance,research content,research objectives,research steps and theoretical basis,and explains the selection of corpus and the source of corpus in this paper.The second chapter is a summary of the research.This chapter mainly summarizes the research results of the lexicalization in Chinese motion event and introduces the research status of Uyghur language in motion event.Secondly,this chapter also reviews the study of the Uyghur corresponding expression of the main lexicalization patterns in Chinese,the structure of verb-direction complement,the study of translation and the study of national general language teaching for Uyghur students.It is found that the research results in these fields are scattered and the research results are not systematic,and the research framework is not unified.The third chapter,under the theoretical framework of Talmyan topology in lexicalization of motion event,combines the semantic and form research with the research method from semantics to form and also from form to semantics.Taking the components[figure],[motion],[path],[ground]of the framing event in motion event and the components[manner]and[cause]of the co-event in motion event as the entry point,This paper makes a contrastive analysis of the similarities and differences of lexicalization patterns in the expression of the six components of motion event in Chinese and Uyghur language.And uses the theory of the cognitive linguistics to explain the reasons why these tow languages express the same semantics with different ways,that is because of different cognitive mechanisms of human beings.According to the research,it is found that the Uyghur language tends to the encoding types of V-framed language when expresses motion event,that is,the core schema[path]component is mainly encoded by verb root.Compared with the typical V-framed language,Uyghur language uses the structure of V1+-0p+V2 to encode motion event.The component of[path]can be encoded by V1,V2 or simultaneously by V1 and V2.In the expression of motion event,there is no typical satellite component proposed by Talmy in Uyghur language.When expressing[+bounded]motion event,the component of[path]is encoded in the frame structure of'background+case marker+motion verb'.At the end of this chapter,we also discuss the interaction between the components of the special syntax structure V1+-0p+V2 and the conceptual semantics of motion event.The fourth chapter takes the structure of verb-direction complement which is the typical lexicalization pattern of Chinese motion event as a case study to explore the corresponding expression patterns of the structure of verb-direction complement in Uyghur language.The structure of verb-direction complement in Chinese is the main coding mode of motion event.With the virtualization,dilution and even disappearance of the semantics of the core schema[path]in motion event,the semantics of the structure of verb-direction is extended.In addition,through corpus analysis,it is found that the verb-direction complement structure is also closely related to the event of change or constancy,event of realization and event of contouring in time,which were proposed by Talmy.These macro events are all the results of the conceptual metaphor of motion event and have similar conceptual semantic structure as motion event.Based on the Talmyan macro event theory,this chapter divides Chinese verb-direction complement into ten groups,such as'lai'group,'qu' group,'shang',group,'xia'group,'jin'group,'chu'group,'hui'group,'guo'group,'qi'group,'kai'group and so on.In addition,this paper also makes an empirical research on the relationship between subcategories and macro events and their corresponding expressions in Uyghur language.It is found that Uyghur language reflects the characteristics of V-framed language when it is corresponding to Chinese motion event.It uses some path verbs,manner verbs,compound verbs and the structure of V1+-0p+V2 to correspond with Chinese.When corresponding the expression of several other kinds of events in Chinese,the case marker indicating the direction will disappear,and more auxiliary verbs,adjectivized affixes and other additional components are used to correspond to Chinese.This reflects the coding characteristics of S-framed language.From the corresponding expression pattern of Uyghur language,we can see that the conceptual semantics of verb-direction complement has experienced a transition process from spatial meaning to temporal meaningFrom the perspective of typology linguistics,the fifth chapter discusses the lexicalization of motion event in some relative languages of the Altaic language family in China.When these relative languages express motion event,the types of manner verbs are relatively lacking.In order to compensate for the lack of[manner],a large number of imitative words generated.In the way of expression,analytical structure is often used to make up for the deficiency of the[manner].In addition,just like Uyghur language,some pure path verbs that express motion have the function of tense and aspect,which is also a common feature in human language.However,in the language of the same language group,these function of pure path verbs can be divided into strong and weak.Different from Chinese,some basic manner verbs in Uyghur language and other relative languages can also have the function of tense and aspect.In addition,there are also some differences in the expression of motion event in the languages within the same language group,which are different from those of other relatives.When Salar expresses motion event,the adverbial affixes in the structure of V1+-0p+V2 will fall off.The relationship between V1 and V2 is similar to the conjunctive structure in terms of form and semantics which reflects that Salar language is more analytical than other kindred languages.The characterristic of adhesion gradually weakens.The sixth chapter is the conclusion part which summarizes the main contents of the thesis and the results of these research.It points out the shortcomings of the research and reflects on it.At the same tiome,it also looks forward to the further research in the future.