漢語連接詞的語法化：以語料庫為基礎的研究

Grammaticalization of Connectives in Mandarin Chinese: A Corpus-Based Study

本文旨在探討漢語三個連接詞「因為」、「所以」以及「然後」的語法化現象。我們首先根據 Traugott (1995a:1) 所提出的「副詞語法化趨向」，分析三個連接詞語法化之途徑，並以這三個連接詞的多義現象，印證Traugott「副詞語法化趨向」之論點。再者，在討論各連接詞在語用上的不同言談標記功能時，我們也引介 Traugott (1995b, 1999) 及 Traugott and Dasher (2002) 所提出的「主觀化」與「互動主觀化」概念、以及 Blakemore (1988, 1992) 所提的「關連性理論架構」，以資佐證。

This paper probes into the grammaticalization of three connectives in Mandarin Chinese, namely yinwei ‘because,’ suoyi ‘so,’ and ranhou ‘then.’ In accordance with Traugott’s (1995a:1) adverbial cline, we examine the three connectives’ paths of grammaticalization, and show how their polysemous uses in the present day fall within the prediction of her adverbial cline. Moreover, for further explanation of their functions as discourse markers which serve communicative purposes, we explicate the concept of subjectification and intersubjectification proposed by Traugott (1995b, 1999) and Traugott & Dasher (2002) and Blakemore’s (1988, 1992) relevance-based framework.