1、 核心情态动词论文：英语核心情态动词的历时语义演变研究【中文摘要】作为情态表达的重要手段之一,情态动词不论在口语中还是在笔语中都得到了广泛的应用,其作用有目共睹,不可或缺。顾名思义,情态动词表示说话人对有关行为或事物的态度和看法,认为其可能、应该或必要等;不但其本身具有一定的词义,而且能为谓语动词增添情态色彩。尽管一直以来情态动词被归属到助动词的范畴之中,但是学者们普遍认为情态动词是由完全动词或实义动词演变而来,并随着时代的进步和发展,发生了颇为明显的语义转变。著名学者 Coates 和 Palmer 都指出了现代英语情态动词呈现出多义性和模糊性的特征,并强调理解情态动词的关键在于理解其不确定
2、性。基于二位学者对情态动词语义的划分,本文选择英语情态动词这一范畴中的五个核心成员 MAY, CAN, MUST, WILL 和 SHALL 作为研究对象开展历时性研究,旨在弄清楚以下几个问题:其一,每个情态动词的核心语义演变过程是什么?其二,这五个核心情态动词的演变规律有没有什么共性?其三,产生语义演变的动因和机制是什么?在本文的研究中,作者首先将英语的发展史分为了四个历史阶段,并针对每一阶段自建了包含文学、政治、法律、演讲、访谈等各方面内容的语料库,然后进行定性定量的分析:一是使用.【英文摘要】As one of important and effective devices for ex
3、pressing modality, English modal verbs have been widely used in both spoken and written language and play an indispensable role. Just as the name implies, modal verbs indicates the speakers attitudes and opinions on things or acts, such as possibility, obligation or necessity. Modal auxiliaries them
4、selves have certain meanings and add some emotive colors to the predicate of a sentence or an utterance. Although it is acknowledged that modal auxiliaries are one.【关键词】核心情态动词 语义演变 主语情态 言者情态 认识情态【英文关键词】primary English modal verbs semantic changes subject-oriented modality speaker-oriented modality e
5、pistemic modality【索购全文】联系 Q1：138113721 Q2：139938848【目录】英语核心情态动词的历时语义演变研究 摘要 5-7 Abstract 7-8 Abbreviations 12-13 List of Tables 13-15 List of Figures 15-16 Chapter 1 Introduction 16-19 1.1 Background of the present study 16-17 1.2 Objectives and significance of the study 17 1.3 Feasibility of the st
6、udy 17-18 1.4 Outline of the thesis 18-19 Chapter 2 Literature Review 19-31 2.1 Synchronic study on modality and modal verbs 19-25 2.2 Diachronic study on modality and modal verbs 25-29 2.3 Summary 29-31 Chapter 3 Methodology and Data Collection 31-35 3.1 Theoretical basis of the present study 31-32
7、 3.2 Research method and data collection 32-35 3.2.1 Research method 32-33 3.2.2 Data Collection 33-35 Chapter 4 Changing Regularities of the Senses of Primary English Modals 35-78 4.1 Sense Development of MAY 40-48 4.1.1 MAY in OE period 40-43 4.1.2 MAY in ME period 43-45 4.1.3 MAY in EmodE period
8、45 4.1.4 MAY in ModE period 45-47 4.1.5 A Summary of MAY 47-48 4.2 Sense Development of Can 48-55 4.2.1 CAN in OE period 48-49 4.2.2 CAN in ME period 49-52 4.2.3 CAN in EModE period 52-53 4.2.4 CAN in ModE period 53-54 4.2.5 A Summary of CAN 54-55 4.3 Sense Development of MUST 55-63 4.3.1 MUST in OE
9、 period 55-57 4.3.2 MUST in ME period 57-58 4.3.3 MUST in EModE period 58-59 4.3.4 MUST in ModE period 59-61 4.3.5 A Summary of MUST 61-63 4.4 Sense Development of WILL 63-70 4.4.1 WILL in OE period 63-65 4.4.2 WILL in ME period 65-67 4.4.3 WILL in EModE period 67-68 4.4.4 WILL in ModE period 68-69
10、4.4.5 A Summary of WILL 69-70 4.5 Sense Development of SHALL 70-76 4.5.1 SHALL in OE period 70-72 4.5.2 SHALL in ME period 72-73 4.5.3 SHALL in EModE period 73-74 4.5.4 SHALL in ModE period 74-75 4.5.5 A Summary of SHALL 75-76 4.6 A Summary of the Semantic Changes of Primary English Modals 76-78 Cha
11、pter 5 Motivations and Mechanisms of the Semantic Change of the English Modals 78-87 5.1 Metaphor and Metonymy 78-81 5.2 Grammaticalization 81-84 5.2.1 Unidirectionality 81 5.2.2 Subjectivity and Subjectivisation 81-82 5.2.3 Invited Inferencing Theory of Semantic Change (IITSC) 82-84 5.3 Categorization 84-87 Chapter 6 Conclusion 87-89 References 89-94 Appendix I 94-97 Appendix II 97-100 Appendix III 100-105 Appendix IV 105-110 Appendix V 110-113 Acknowledgements 113-114 作者简介 114
