On cognitive basis of Chinese reduplication and factors influncing on choice of cognitive patterns
Zhou Mengzhan · Journal of Central South University(Social Science) · 2011
Reduplications in conceptual domain origins from cognition of recurrent similar objects.The recurrent formal elements in linear language array corresponds to the recurrent similar concept elements in definite cognitive configuration.The different cognitive patterns of recurrent similar objects can explain different reduplicative phenomena in languages.It is different from the previous method explaining one language phenomenon with other language phenomenon,such as explaining appearance of verbal reduplication with appearance of VR construction.That is to say,we explain language phenomena with human basic cognitive patterns.We believe that appearance and analogy of VR construction catalyze appearance of verbal reduplication in recent and modern Chinese,but it is not the cause.The cause is transition of construal patterns of recurrent similar objects.Then simultaneously,the factors such as parts of speech and the meaning of a word,overlapping form and syntactic position decide the choice of cognitive patterns of reduplication.