识解机制下动词重叠式的界性调整

e located, verb reduplication can be regarded as follows: under the influence of the construal operations, driven by the law of Pragnanz, the cognizer establishes a gestalt for the action event under his or her control during the construal process and sets a stopping point for this action event. Due to the explicit subjectivity controllability presented by verb reduplication, the action event it represents is first manifested as the cognizer mentally attaching a stopping point to this action event.This means that the action event first has a processing time, and the processing time precedes the conceived time. Therefore, the action event represented by verb reduplication has an uncertain termination point. Subsequently, when this action event is presented through a language expression, its processing time correspondingly activates the conceived time. Under the dominance of the principle of linguistic economy, the cognizer chooses to use the lexical form representing the same action to mark the stopping of the event. This process not only reflects the conciseness of language expression but also further paves the way for the semantics of verb reduplication, enabling it to achieve consistency between the linguistic form and the semantic content. 

Chapter Seven Conclusion

7.1 Major Findings

The most crucial aspect of studying boundedness adjustment of verb reduplication lies in clarifying the commonalities and differences between verb reduplication and the base verb. The commonalities and differences between verb reduplication and the base verb determine that their semantics can be dynamically constructed under the construal operations. Based on this perspective, this study finds a distinction between the bounded and the unbounded in verb reduplication and the base verb: All verb reduplications are the bounded, whereas the base verb exhibits the bounded and the unbounded.

Firstly, this thesis examines the differences in boundedness between base verbs and verb reduplications from the schematic characteristics of verbs and formal collocations. Based on construal and boundedness theory, according to the schematic characteristics of verbs, this thesis classifies base verbs into two major categories and three minor categories: base verbs can be divided into bounded and unbounded types. Based on the classification of the bounded and the unbounded, a secondary classification can be further carried out according to the internal characteristics: According to whether there is internal continuity within the bounded base verbs, bounded verbs are divided into accomplishment verbs and instant-completion verbs. Through the retrieval in the BCC corpus, it is found that only accomplishment verbs with internal continuity characteristics can fall within the range of reduplication. According to the different ways of presenting homogeneity and internal continuity presented within the unbounded base verbs, unbounded verbs are divided into activity verbs and state verbs. Judging from the retrieval results of the BCC corpus, both activity verbs and state verbs can fall within the range of reduplication, showing internal continuity. However, activity verbs exhibit relative homogeneity, while state verbs exhibit complete homogeneity. According to the schematic features of verbs, verb reduplication exhibits the bounded and internal durativity. These schematic features are ultimately reflected in their formal configurations. In terms of form, bounded verb reduplication and accomplishment base verbs, which schematically exhibit the bounded characteristics, cannot collocate with “一直”, which denotes the continuation of the same state. In contrast, unbounded activity and state base verbs can collocate with “一直”. Additionally, based on the fact that verb reduplication can all collocate with “看” and the characteristics of sequential compound serial verbs—where sub-event 1 must be completed before sub-event 2 begins—the bounded characteristics of verb redupli