漢語比較式關聯句式中的輕動詞「來」

The Light Verb lai in the Chinese Comparative Correlative

漢語的「越來越」句式是「越……越」比較式關聯句式的一種。句式中的「來」是以狀態謂語為補語的輕動詞 BECOME 的顯性形式。藉由網路對大量漢語文字資料的搜尋，我們進一步論證「越來越」這個字串正處於詞彙化為一個程度副詞的進程中；「越來越」這個尚未完成詞彙化的語法單位所顯現出來的語法和語意特性為本文針對「越來越」句式所提出的輕動詞分析提供了進一步的佐證。

The Chinese yue lai yue ‘more come more’ construction is a subtype of the Chinese comparative correlative rather than an analogue of the English more and more (or -er and -er) construction. The verb lai ‘come’ inside is the overt realization of the light verb BECOME, which selects as complement a state. Through an internet search of large Chinese corpora, we further argue that the yue lai yue ‘more come more’ sequence is on the way to being lexicalized as a degree adverb with some properties that provide indirect evidence for the light verb analysis made here.