英文摘要 |
The disposal construction has been one of the popular themes in Sinitic linguistics for a long time. The accomplishment of researching BA construction, which is a disposal construction of standard Mandarin Chinese, has already made a lot of contributions to Sinitic grammar. The basic structure of BA construction is S+D+O+VP(S: subject, D: disposal marker, O: object, VP: verb phrase). Taiwanese Hailu Hakka also has this kind of disposal construction. It can be called LAU construction since this disposal marker is LAU. However, LAU construction is different from BA construction in several ways. We discuss the subject of this construction in this paper. Referring to the framework of proto-agent and proto-patient proposed by Dowty(1991), and making a comparison analysis with BA construction, we would like to point out two features of LAU construction. (1)The prototypical subject must be a volitional agent; (2)The subject must be an argument of the predicate. This shows that the subject of LAU construction is a more prototypical agent than that of BA construction. |