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语用化概念自问世至今与语法化的争端就一直不绝于耳。二者究竟关系何如,学者们莫衷一是。本文从梳理相关纷争入手,以sort of和I think的演变为例,借助Ariel的编码和语用推理原则,依循语法和语用的区别,重新审视此争端,条分缕析,进而阐明语用化与语法化有本质区别,但二者在语言演化过程中处于互补交融的状态。

There have long been controversies over pragmaticalization and grammaticalization as to what functions they actually play in the emergence of pragmatic markers. This paper tries to re⁃examine this issue within the framework of Ariel􀆳s conceptual clarification of grammar and pragmatics and her standards of code and inference. Case studies of the linguistic evolution of“sort of”and“I think”show that though different from each other in many ways, pragmaticalization and grammaticalization are interconnected complementarily in different stages in the development of the two markers. Findings suggest that it is significant to explore the different features of pragmaticalization and grammaticalization, but unwise to put the two concepts into opposition or to confuse the differences between the two.