현대 중국어 ‘V1着V2’에 대한 고찰

Abstract

This paper briefly studies the structure, 'V1着V2', in modern Chinese. The results are as follows: according to the different semantic relations between V1 and V2, 'V1着V2' generally has two types of semantic meaning, Manner-Action and Action-Objective. Furthermore, within each of the two types, the happening and lasting of the actions, V1 and V2, are different in time. Here, we classified the internal time characteristic of 'V1着V2' into four types: simultaneity, successiveness, inter-sectionality, and selectivity. The differences in the internal time characteristic of 'V1着V2' are basically due to the differences in the aspect characteristics of '着'. Meanwhile, based on our investigation, the internal time characteristic of 'V1着V2' will change in different situations of dynamic aspect and static aspect. In addition, with respect to the 'V1着V2' with the time characteristic of successiveness, we compared it with coverbial sentences. The semantic meanings of 'V1着V2' and 'VP1+VP2' are the same insofar as V2 happens after V1, but in the aspect of pragmatics, 'V1着V2' focuses on V1, expressing a kind of subjectivity on behalf of the speaker. Therefore, this paper came to the conclusion that, in the process of teaching Chinese speaking and writing, teachers can use the above results as a reference to consciously guide students to use 'V1着V2' when stressing manner, instead of simply listing VP1 and VP2. It is hoped that this study may be helpful to future related studies and Chinese teaching.