【摘要】
A large volume of published studies have described the part of speech of “you 有” in the “you 有+verb phrase (VP)”structure of oracle bone inscriptions. However, much of the literature lacks a fine-grained classification of the VP following “you 有.” This article starts with the structure of the VP and analyzes the syntactic and semantic relationship between “you 有” and the VP. It is found that when “you 有” is used in conjunction with different VPs, it has changed the lexical meaning and syntactic function from a verb indicating existence to an adverb denoting emphasis on the VP, with the pragmatic effect of focus-marking. Several factors could explain this change, ranging from syntactic structure to frequency of use and subjectivity.
【关键词】Oracle bone inscriptions, semantic bleaching, verb phrase, you 有
【作者简介】
