英语形容词原型范畴地研究

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1、APrototypeStudyofEnglishAThesisSubmiRedtoForeignStudiesCollegeOfHunanNormalUniversityInPartialFulfillmentoftheRequirementsFortheDegreeofMasterofArtsintheSubjectofEnglishLanguageandLiteratureByXieShaUndertheSupervisionofProfessorQinYuxiangChangsha，HunanMay,2014Abstrac

2、tAdjectivesplayanimportantroleintheEnglishlanguageapplication．AsanimportantwordclassinEnglish，Englishadjectiveshavealwaysbeenoneofthemainsubjectsstudiedbylinguistsandgrammarians．Previousstudiesonadjectivesaremostlylimitedtothegrammaticalfield．Withtheriseanddevelopmen

3、tofcognitivelinguisticssince1970s，people’SunderstandingofEnglishadjectivesbreaksthelimitationsoffocusingonthepositionsandfunctionsofadjectivesinsentences．TheyhaveformedacompletelynewviewonadjectivesintheEnglishlanguage．However,fewscholarshavetreatedEnglishadjectivesa

4、saprototypecategoryinthepreviousstudies．Takingtheprototypetheoryofcognitivelinguisticsasthetheoreticalfoundation，thisthesishastriedtoprobeintoEnglishadjectivesfromtheperspectiveofprototypecategory．Basedonthis，thisthesishasgivenaunifieddescriptionandexplanationtotheir

5、．。semanticfeaturesaswellastheirsyntacticfeatures．Accordingtotheprototypetheory,alllinguisticcategoriesareprototypecategoriesandthesameistrueofEnglishadjectives．ThisthesisarguesthatEnglishadjectiveshavebothsemanticandsyntacticfeatures，theformerconstitutethesemanticcat

6、egoryofEnglishadjectives，thelatterconstitutesyntacticcategoryofthem，andbothoftwocategoriesareprototypecategories．Inthisthesis，thesemanticandsyntacticcategoriesofEnglishadjectivesarestudiedasprototypecategoriesunderguidanceofprototypetheory．Englishadjectivesasasemanti

7、ccategoryreflectcharacteristicsofthings．Itsprototypicalmembersnotonlyreflectpermanentattributesofthings，butalsoreflecttheirtemporaryattributes，whileitsnon-prototypicalmember，sCanonlyreflectpermanentattributesortemporaryattributesofthings；Englishadjectivesasasyntactic

8、categoryprimarilyplaytwosyntacticfunctions：attributiveandpredicative．Itsprototypicalmemberscanfunctionbothattributivelyandpredicati