‘有’자문의 정보 구조에 대한 소고 ― ‘有+NP+VP’를 중심으로

Abstract

According to Lambrecht (1994[2000]), presentational construction introduces a new referent into discourse, through promoting the referent from ‘non-activation state’ to ‘activation state’ based on ‘topic acceptability scale’. Additionally, this active referent can be used in subsequent discourse as a ‘topic’. This can account for various aspects of the ‘You(有)+NP+VP’ subject-less constructions in Chinese. First, the NP of the presentational construction can be approved according to the ‘topic acceptability scale’ rather than whether it is definite or indefinite. It is true that the NP of the presentational construction is mainly indefinite NP as non-active referent, however it is also possible to introduce a referent of the text-external discourse world into the text-internal discourse world, such as ‘I(我)’ and ‘You(你)’. Second, the presentational construction is a kind of thetic sentence, and the NP can only be ‘topic referents’ but cannot be ‘topic (expression)’. Third, the presentational construction indicates that the referent is in the ‘place’ or the ‘scene’, which means ‘possession’, rather than just assert the ‘existence’ of the referent. Based on this, it is predictable that ‘You(有)’, which expresses ‘possession’, can be used in the presentational construction in Chinese, whereas ‘Zai(在)’, which expresses ‘existence’, cannot.