TY - JOUR

T1 - Эволюция представлений китайских лингвистов о дополнительном элементе (补语 bǔyǔ) в предложении

AU - Емельченкова, Елена Николаевна

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - The article is devoted to the description of buyu ((Figure presented) bŭyŭ), i. e. a linguistic concept of a complement perceived as a special part of a sentence in Chinese linguistics. The problem of distinguishing grammatical units of a sentence that share one syntactic function is considered. Less than a century ago China did not have any knowledge of theoretical linguistics of its own, so it had to borrow the concept from foreign science. Thus, the notion of a complement that supplements the semantics of a verb or an adjective in a predicate was introduced by Li Jinxi who had borrowed it from English grammars and applied to Chinese syntax. However, soon enough it had become a subject of revision. The article reflects how the concept of buyu has become a mixture of related linguistic phenomena by its gradual meaning extension. Besides, the paper analyses topmost structural and semantic features of the units that perform the role of buyu in a sentence, as well as summarises the criteria for distinguishing it from other parts of a sentence, i. e. an object and adverbial modifier. It is claimed that a single and consistent approach should be employed to the relevant elements with the same syntactic function and that the existing descriptions of Chinese grammar should be reexamined providing the concept of buyu. Finally, the author stresses the necessity to use the term dopolnitel’niy element (‘an additional element’) for terminology consistency in Russian sinological literature.

AB - The article is devoted to the description of buyu ((Figure presented) bŭyŭ), i. e. a linguistic concept of a complement perceived as a special part of a sentence in Chinese linguistics. The problem of distinguishing grammatical units of a sentence that share one syntactic function is considered. Less than a century ago China did not have any knowledge of theoretical linguistics of its own, so it had to borrow the concept from foreign science. Thus, the notion of a complement that supplements the semantics of a verb or an adjective in a predicate was introduced by Li Jinxi who had borrowed it from English grammars and applied to Chinese syntax. However, soon enough it had become a subject of revision. The article reflects how the concept of buyu has become a mixture of related linguistic phenomena by its gradual meaning extension. Besides, the paper analyses topmost structural and semantic features of the units that perform the role of buyu in a sentence, as well as summarises the criteria for distinguishing it from other parts of a sentence, i. e. an object and adverbial modifier. It is claimed that a single and consistent approach should be employed to the relevant elements with the same syntactic function and that the existing descriptions of Chinese grammar should be reexamined providing the concept of buyu. Finally, the author stresses the necessity to use the term dopolnitel’niy element (‘an additional element’) for terminology consistency in Russian sinological literature.

KW - Chinese grammar

KW - Chinese language

KW - Chinese syntax

KW - buyu

KW - complement

KW - parts of the sentence

KW - sentence elements

KW - sentence parts

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/3e0a4d3d-377d-331f-a600-84a06c8cdf8b/

U2 - 10.21638/spbu13.2023.206

DO - 10.21638/spbu13.2023.206

M3 - статья

VL - 15

SP - 307

EP - 331

JO - ВЕСТНИК САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГСКОГО УНИВЕРСИТЕТА. ВОСТОКОВЕДЕНИЕ И АФРИКАНИСТИКА

JF - ВЕСТНИК САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГСКОГО УНИВЕРСИТЕТА. ВОСТОКОВЕДЕНИЕ И АФРИКАНИСТИКА

SN - 2074-1227

IS - 2

ER -