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文章从认知隐喻理论和概念合成理论出发,分析了介词to的多重意义及其相互联系,并以此为基础探究了带to的短语动词概念意义的理据。研究发现,to的原型意义是“朝向、对着某个(凸显的)目标”;以这个原型意义为参照点,to拓展出了另外十种概念意义。To的这些意义与动词的本义或隐喻意义经过选择、匹配,映射到合成空间,整合出了带to短语动词的意义。
Based on cognitive metaphor theory and conceptual synthesis theory, the article analyzes the multiple meanings of preposition to and their interrelationships, and based on this, explores the motivation of the conceptual meaning of phrase verbs with to. The study found that the prototype meaning of to is “toward, against a (highlighted) target”; to this prototype meaning as a reference point, to extend the ten other kinds of conceptual significance. These meanings of To and the original or metaphorical meanings of the verbs are selected, matched and mapped into the synthetic space to integrate the meaning of the verb with to.