현대중국어 동사중첩형식의 문법의미 고찰

Abstract

Reduplication is a universal phenomenon commonly found in lots of languages of the world. In Chinese, also, reduplication is a phenomenon that occurs widely in various part of speech, particularly, reduplication of verb is a linguistic phenomenon where many researchers have paid attention. There are hundreds of theses on grammatical meaning of verb reduplication, however relatively influential opinion could be summarized as follows. 1. Short time, 2. Attempt, 3. Convenience. However, while explaining by combining various grammatical meanings which have no semantic association in a grammatical form, verb reduplication form, there’s a lacking in explanation. Here, this research extracted example sentences from the existing research data and analyzed them on the whole, and found out a new fact that has not been suggested yet. Reduplication of modern Chinese verb acts to generate movement quantity concept that did not exist in the basic form. This movement quantity indicates proper quantity that the subject could subjectively control, not indicating whether the quantity increased or decreased compared to the basic form. Since the subject could control the action, discretion of the subject is more enhanced in the sentence where verb reduplication was used, on the contrary, verb reduplication could be adopted in the context of exerting discretion of the subject. When defining grammatical meaning of verb reduplication form as ‘to indicate intentional action that is performed as much as the quantity that the doer determines proper in the situation that the subject of action is under control’, it is possible to explain the syntactic limitation that verb reduplication form could not adopt quantity phrase objective, conversion unavailability of 把 phrase and 被 phrase where verb reduplication form was used in the predicate, and the phenomenon that modifier that indicates unintentionality and verb reduplication form could not be written in common, etc.