英语词类转换的多元分析

转类法是现代英语中一种较为活跃的构词方法。词类转换有其深刻的动因,客观世界的统一性为转换提供了物质基础,人类范畴化的认知能力决定了词类转换的可能性和不平衡性。语言是人类认知的符号化表征,语言与认知不可分。

Multivariate Analyses of English Word-class Shift

Word-class shift is a common phenomenon of English vocabulary.It is also a relatively active word-formation process in modern English.This paper analyzes this phenomenon from four levels: philosophy,semantics,prototype theory and metonymic model.The author thinks there is deep mechanism below word-class shift.The unity of objective world supplies material basis for the shift,the cognitive ability of human categorization determines the possibility and imbalance of shift.Language is the symbolic representatio...