Les verbes résultatifs du chinois
This work deals with sentences in which two verbs follow each other, such as chī băo “eat” + “satisfy”, shuō wán “speak” + “finish”, kàn chuān “watch” + “pierce”, which Chinese grammarians usually refer to as “resultative verbs”. Is this V1+V2 construction grammatical, or does it belong to lexical c...
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2024
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | This work deals with sentences in which two verbs follow each other, such as chī băo “eat” + “satisfy”, shuō wán “speak” + “finish”, kàn chuān “watch” + “pierce”, which Chinese grammarians usually refer to as “resultative verbs”. Is this V1+V2 construction grammatical, or does it belong to lexical creation? To answer this question, we will first test syntactic criteria, semantic criteria as well as prosodic data will complement them. It is observed that while Chinese adopts an analytical approach at the semantic level to obtain action-result pairs, these pairs behave synthetically at the syntactic level, when composed in this way, these unitary complexes have become new verbs. The verbs that form the second term of the composition cover a wide range of resultative nuances that grammatical aspectual modalities cannot express. It can be concluded that within the numerous unitary verbal complexes of Chinese, the composition with a resultative verb is particularly well-represented. This is deeply connected, as pointed out by Shen Jiaxuan, with the bisyllabism and the dui speech in Chinese, which expresses causality between an action and its result at the semantic level, stemming from their inter-signification but also from their unification. This form of construction reflects the cognitive habits of Chinese speakers that every translator must know and understand in order to better convey their meaning in French. |
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