‘很V’, ‘很VP’ 연구

Abstract

Based on Corpus, this paper examines the types of modern Chinese ‘Hen+V’ and ‘Hen+VP’ and the features of each type and examines the function of ‘Hen’ in these structures. First of all, verbs that can receive the modifier of ‘Hen’ by themselves generally corresponded to psychological verbs. In the case of non-psychological verbs, it was possible to receive the modification of ‘Hen’ by expressing a state or evaluation meaning like an adjective, out of the action meaning of a typical verb. The verb phrases that received the modification of ‘Hen’ were largely in the form of Verb-object phrase, Pivotal construction, Verb-complement phrase, and Quantity phrase, and Verb-object phrase occupied the majority. Verbs and verb-object phrases, pivotal constructions, and verb-complement phrases that are modified by ‘Hen’ all refer to attribute meanings or to indicate status or evaluation meanings corresponding to adjectives, and thus have gradability semantic qualities; Therefore, ‘Hen’ that appears with them is used as a function to reinforce this level of gradability. In particular, when the verbs themselves do not have stative or gradable semantic qualities, the ‘Hen’ that appears before these verbs can be viewed as a ‘Property Semantic Marker’ indicating that the latter verb phrase is an attribute meaning rather than a meaning of action, facts, or events. On the other hand, unlike other structures that receive the modification of ‘Hen’, Quantity phrases generally have aspect markers ‘Le’ or ‘Guo’ after the verb, indicating facts or events rather than attribute meanings. It was characterized by having a quantifier indicating a small amount or an indefinite amount in the form. When ‘Hen’ appears before a verb with such a quantity phrase, the phrase emphasizes that the speaker subjectively considers the presented quantity to be large. We believe that ‘Hen’, which appears together with the quantity phrase, has been grammaticalized in the process of expanding the context, and has functioned as a Viewpoint Marker indicating the speaker's subjective viewpoint and evaluation by subjectivization. We proposed that this ‘Hen’ can be categorized as a ‘Multiple Viewpoint Marker’, which is considered subjectively high for the presented objective quantity.