Abstract
本論文從共時的觀點探討台灣閩南語中一些移動動詞詞彙多意性的現象。詞彙多意性是語意延伸的必然結果，而語意延伸的方向一般是從具體到抽象。作者首先從動詞的概念結構出發，找出它們在句法結構中的表現以及相對應的連結規則，再觀察詞彙在不同情況下發生的意義轉變。語意延伸的形成有許多可能性，其中比喻和換喻都是常見的方式，此外，結構本身也會賦予詞彙新的意義。作者從「語境推論」的角度來解釋語意變遷中，某些意義如何從特殊語境中推論出來，並進而獲得詞彙意義的地位。由於語言使用的實際情況是複雜多樣的，但詞彙卻是有限的，因此有許多語用的細部內容不可能存放在詞彙資訊中，而必須由語言使用者的外界知識來補足。本論文的架構如下：第一章簡介理論方法、探討語料和論文架構；第二章將理論基礎作一系統性的回顧；第三章討論移動動詞的相關議題；第四、五章包含了語料呈現以及語意的分類整理；第六章討論語意延伸的各種機制；第七章對本論文作一總結。The thesis studies phenomena of lexical polysemy found insomeverbs of movement in Taiwanese Southern Min from asynchronic point of view. Lexical polysemy results from senseextension, the direction of which is from concrete to abstract.We start with conceptual structures of verbs and their behaviorin syntactic structures, as well as the mapping correspondencerules. Then we look into their semantic change in differentrealizations. There are many mechanisms responsible for senseextension, metaphor and metonymy being two of them. Besides,sentential constructions also give rise to new meanings. A newmeaning can also be inferred from a certain context, which wecall 'pragmatic inference'. The inference meaning is furtherpromoted to a lexical one. Since the use of language indifferent situations is complex and infinite, and yet thelexicon is finite, there is no way to encode detailedinformation into the lexicon. This gap is filled by thespeakers' world knowledge. The thesis is structured as follows:Chapter 1 introduces methodology, the verbs to be studied, andthe organization of the thesis; Chapter 2 presents a systematicreview of theoretical framework; Chapter 3 discusses relatedissues on verbs of movement; Chapters 4 and 5 present the dataand classify meanings into groups; Chapter 6 gives an account ofsense extension mechanisms; and Chapter 7 concludes our study.