The history of the disposal construction revisited – Evidence from Zen dialogues in the Tang dynasty
处置结构历史的回顾－唐朝禅语录中所见的材料
Shuanfan Huang 黄宣范

Abstract 摘要
Drawing on the Zen dialogues of the Tang dynasty, this study presents an antigrammaticalization thesis for the emergence of the ba sentence, and suggests that the jiang sentence may have served as the guiding model for the development of the ba sentence in its modern form, the mechanism of change being one of lexical replacement. The bei construction is suggested as the ultimate trigger for the evolution of the disposal characteristics in the jiang and thus also the ba constructions. This study of the history of the disposal constructions is thus instructive in that it confirms the general idea of syntactic change as a surface phenomenon–either grammaticalization or lexical replacement originates in contexts that do not distort surface form.

根据唐朝禅语录的材料，本文对“把”子句的出现提出了一个反语法化的看法，并建议“将”字句具有现代“把”字句发展的先导模式作用。变化机制是词汇替换。“被”字句是“将”字句，“把”字句处置特征的最初的触发。对于处置式历史的研究证实了句法变化是一个表层现象的一般看法，即语法化和词汇替换产生于不改变表层形式的语境之中。

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