本文主要考察汉语形容词作定语时体现出来的限制性和非限制性功能。限制性列/非限制性是修饰语在语用层面体现出来的一组对立。汉语中性质形容词、区别性和限制性构成一组无标记的匹配,同时状态形容词、描写性和非限制性构成另一组无标记匹配。加“的”之后可以称代核心的形容词一定是限制性的。除形容词的句法、语义功能外,句子情态、语序、核心名词的性质、定语的类型等都是影响形容词限制性/非限制性功能的因素。
This paper is concerned with the restrictive and non-restrictive functions of Chinese adjectives as attributives. Restrictiveness and non-restrictiveness constitute an opposite pair of modifiers at the pragmatic level. In Chinese, qualitative adjectives and their discriminative and restrictive features constitute an unmarked match, and stative adjectives and their depictive and non-restrictive features do another. It is pointed out that when it is followed by de (的), functioning as a nuclear, the adjective must be restrictive in nature. It concludes that the factors that influence the restrictive or non-restrictive functions are modality, sentence word order, the characteristic of the nuclear noun and type of the attributive, in addition to the syntactic and semantic functions of adjectives.