| Verb-copying construction refers to the sentence pattern that includes two repeated verbs,whose structure can be presented as “SVOVR”,where S stands for subject,V for the repeated verb,O for object and R for resultative phrase.Therefore,VO is the abbreviation of verb-object construction and VR is the abbreviation of verb-resultative construction.Since its first appearance in Wang Li's Chinese Grammar Theory,1 it has attracted much attention of scholars both at home and abroad.After a thorough analysis on the previous studies,it can be obviously concluded that the former studies mainly put emphasis on the generation,classification as well as the information focus of the verb-copying sentence.And few have paid attention to its conceptual representation from the perspective of cognitive grammar.Therefore,taking the resultative verb-copying construction as the research objective,the article is intended to make an attempt on its conceptual representation after a careful analysis on its semantic characteristics and classifications with a unified framework created on the cognitive grammar philosophies and the two-vector model.The thesis mainly covers three topics: Firstly,what are the semantic features of the resultative verb-copying construction? Secondly,how to reclassify the resultative verb-copying construction from a creative perspective? Thirdly,how to represent the conceptualization of the resultative verb-copying construction according to its semantic analysis and its classifications.Aside from providing a new prospective for further researches on verb-copying construction,via employing the theories both in linguistics and physics,this thesis also looks forward to offering an attempt for the interdisciplinary study. |
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