摘要
从形式标记视角来看,上古汉语是区分对象与受事的:(1)动词原本就有且只有一个域内论元时,可以是受事,也可以是对象,皆无标记;(2)动词有两个域内论元时,受事无标记,对象通常以动词异读去声或"于/於"为标记;(3)无域内论元的不及物动词,可以借助异读去声或"于/於"这两种标记引进对象论元.从用例来看,随着标记脱落以及词义发展等,出现了大量无标记的对象论元,受事与对象的区分变得模糊,以有标记的用例为基础并结合异读模式解析,或有可能找出二者的大致界线.
Abstract
The concepts of"object"and"patient"are closely intertwined,which are difficult to distinguish by semantic features.From the perspective of heterophony,it can be found that:"V+patient"has no heterophony,while"V+object"has heterophony with the departing tone,that is,the"object"argument is usually marked besides by the"departing tone",which may occasionally also be marked by"yu(于/於)".This paper discusses the cases of"verb followed by patient argument"and"verb followed by object argument"with specific examples:1.The"V+patient"structure where the verb is followed by the"patient"directly.As the most natural syntactic combination,it is usually unmarked without heterophony or preposition.2.The"V+object"structure which involves three situations:(1)The unmarked"V+object"structure in which the verbs involved originally have an"object"as their complement,such as"cong(从)","zhui(追)","qiu(求)",etc.(2)"V(departing tone)+object"structure marked by the"departing tone".They are very conspicuous in the heterophony system of ancient Chinese for their various cases in use in a unified form(heterophony with the departing tone).According to the semantic features of the words before and after the heterophony,and the heterophony rules,they can be further divided into the following subcategories:i.Intransitive verbs/adjectives/nouns.In the case of heterophony with the departing tone,they add an object to become bivalent verbs,such as"hao Shen Shuzhan(号申叔展)"etc.ii.Transitive verbs.In the case of heterophony with the departing tone,they add an object to become trivalent verbs,such as"yu zhi gu(语之故)"etc.iii.Cases that use non-departing tone and departing tone to distinguish"V(non-departing tone)+patient"and"V(departing tone)+object",such as"tou(投)","xue/xiao(学/效)","ting(听)",etc.iii.Cases that cannot find the original word with the non-departing tone,but have the feature of"V(departing tone)+object",such as"zhu(助)"etc.(3)"V(+patient)+于/於+object"structure marked by"yu(于/於)".In this case,the verb has both"patient"and"object"arguments,among which the"patient"is unmarked(or not presented in the syntactic structure),and the"object"is marked by"yu(于/於)",such as"献豜于公"etc.In summary:(1)When the verb originally has only one argument within the domain,it can be either a patient or an object,both unmarked;(2)When there are two arguments within the domain,the patient is unmarked,and the object is usually marked by the"departing tone"or"yu(于/於)";(3)Intransitive verbs without arguments within the domain can introduce object arguments by heterophony with the"departing tone"or by using"yu(于/於)".That is,the"patient"is unmarked,while the"object"is usually marked,and the two are clearly distinguished.Later,with the decline of heterophony,the loss of"yu(于/於)",and the mutual extension of"object"and"patient",a large number of unmarked"objects"appeared,and the distinction between"patient"and"object"became blurred.Against such a backdrop,this paper aims at proposing a preliminary idea for finding the boundary between the two again.
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