摘要
本文中“动副型合成名词”主要指由英语短语动词通过转化与合成而派生的名词,如comeback,showoff,makeup。本文首先用实例展现过去几年中这类名词在北美(尤其在美国)的广泛传播,然后从语言学角度分析了这类名词的形成原因和机理,包括句法上可以与相应的短语动词相互转换和概念上表示一个脱离时间维度的过程;此外还讨论了此类名词的应用,指出它易于通过隐喻或换喻扩展词义;最后,建议我国学生应该培养在语境中理解这类名词词义的能力。
The verb-particle noun compounds, like comeback, showoff and makeup, chiefly refer to those compound nouns derived from phrasal verbs via conversion and compounding. The first part of the paper deals with the widespread use of the noun compounds in North America, esp. in the USA, over the last few years. The second part proceeds with a linguistic account for the motivations underlying the compounds in the following four aspects: (1) syntactically the noun compounds are ready alternatives to their cognate phrasal verbs; (2) conceptually they express episodic acts other than time-defined activities; (3) their lexical meanings can be extended via metaphor or metonymy; and (4) they are favored by English native-speakers in North America. Finally, some pedagogical implications are proposed that Chinese EFL learners interpret the meanings of such nouns in context.
出处
《外语教学与研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2007年第2期104-109,共6页
Foreign Language Teaching and Research
