論台灣閩南語之名轉動詞

Taiwan Southern Min Denominal Verbs

本文探討在台灣閩南語 (TSM) 中，名詞轉化為動詞後，此類動詞的語法及語意特色。過去研究台灣閩南語名詞動用的文獻不是很多，其中，Chan & Tai (1995) 呈現了很大量的語料，但是沒有語法上的討論。本文列出TSM 名轉動詞的語法分布，並提出TSM 的名轉動詞也有其獨特的處物／處所(locatum/location) 句型轉換。此外，本文還提出四種語法形式，來說明TSM名轉動詞常會以這些形式來表達其動貌 (aspect)。本文根據這些語法特性，探討TSM 名轉動詞特有的動貌性質。本文發現TSM 名轉動詞的動貌性質，非常不同於英語的現象（參看Harley 1999）。本文論證TSM 的名轉動詞與其來源名詞之間，在動貌特徵上，彼此並無強相關。

Little research has been done on Taiwan Southern Min denominal verbs. This paper explores their syntactic and semantic characteristics. Chan & Tai (1995) provide an abundance of lexical entries for TSM denominal verbs, but without proposing any syntactic description. This paper, on the other hand, presents the syntactic distribution of TSM denominal verbs, demonstrating that some of them can participate in the locatum/location alternation. In addition, it examines four common syntactic patterns for TSM denominal verbs that convey a variety of aspectual information. This study thus contributes to an understanding of the aspectual properties of TSM denominal verbs and, as opposed to Harley’s (1999) theory, it argues against any strong aspectual correlation between TSM denominal verbs and their source nouns.