‘술어+得+보어’식을 정도보어와 상태보어로 나누는 것이 어법적 의의를 지니는가에 대한 논의

Is it Better to Divide the Type of ‘Predicate+ 得[de]+Complement’ into Degree and Condition? - Depended on the Meaning Characteristic of the Complement -

The core argument of this essay is: Is there any grammatical meaning to differentiate the complements in the pattern of “pedicate+de+complement” as a degree complement and a state complement. In this pattern, both words and phrases can be the complements. According to the part of speech and form of the words to explore the semantic nature, and proves that there is no grammatical meaning to differentiate the state complement from degree complement. Most of the examples in this essay come from the existing works and Beijing University Corpus (CCL) and the conclusions are summarized as follow: First, there is no restricted relation between the predicate and the complement in this pattern and the two components can be combined freely. Second, every “pedicate+de+complement” contains somewhat a degree meaning and sometimes, the result meaning, due to the meaning of “de” before its grammaticalization. Third, the mainly reason for some complements in this pattern are classified as the state complement is because the complement itself contains the state meaning. In the system of complement, it needs clear evidence to re-classify the patterns which share the same grammatical structure and it is insufficient to differentiate the state complement from the degree complement only through the words’ meaning. In a word, the common function of “pedicate+de+complement” is: all of them contain the meaning of “degree”. And even though the concepts of the degrees are not exactly the same, they are congruent overall. No matter what kind of meaning and what kind of form the complement, and no matter what the nature of the predicate is, the common function they share in “pedicate+ de+complement” leads to its grammatical function. Therefore, the author thinks that to classify which is state or which is degree complement grammatically is inappropriate.