中国語의 中間構文 : 일본어와의 대조 = On the middle construction in Japanese and Chinese

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The main concern of this paper is to investigate the Chinese middle forms to determine whether there is a true middle construction in Chinese. In other words, if there exists a middle construction in Chinese, what are its properties and constraints?
In the first section of this paper, briefly sketches properties of the middle, based on Ho-Jaee Cheon"s(1998,2004) criteria, which have been developed from the evidence of Japanese. In section 3, we will apply the semantic and syntactic properties of the potential middle construction to the Chinese. In this section, we will find, the Chinese potential middle forms shows sign of an implicit agent argument(i.e. the paraphrase relationship, the all by itself test, or co-occurrence of by-phrase). Moreover, the Chinese potential middle forms exhibits stativity, which is a necessary condition for middles. The test for stativity that we have applied involve the verb happen, the progressive, agent oriented adverbs, pseudoclefts, purpose clauses, the iterative simple present, and genericity. We will find, the forms not occur with the verb happen, progressive, agent oriented adverbs, pseudoclefts, purpose clauses, the iterative simple present, imperatives, and vocatives. Furthermore, the forms permit a paraphrase containing the modal auxiliary. Finally, the forms are acceptable respective of existence of modifier adverbials. Based on the properties of the middle construction in Japanese and tests for each property, we can conclude that Chinese have a middle-intransitive construction.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. 들어가기
• 2. 일본어 중간가능구문의 제 특징
• 3. 중국어 중간구문의 형태적 특징
• 4. 적용
• 5. 결론
• 참고문헌