The present paper explores the semantics of Hemingway’s ‘plain style’ in The Sun Also Rises by combining corpus linguistic methodology with event semantics theory. The focus of the study is on how the narrator of the novel segments experienced situations in terms of semantic events. Corpus linguistic analysis shows that the ‘plain style’ of the narrative section of the novel is realized by means of coordinated clauses and that the narrator’s event segmentation is associated with a small set of preferred lexical items. These results are interpreted in terms of event semantics to show that preferred lexical items are indicative of event types typical of the narrative section . The semantic analysis of relations between coordinated clauses indicates that these relations are not simply about the juxtaposition of disjoined events. Finally, the study demonstrates that an approach combining corpus linguistic methodology with insights from event semantics can offer new understanding of the propositional meaning of literary texts, and the way narrators encode experienced situations.

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《太阳照常升起》中连词的事件语义

本文通过将语料库语言学方法与事件语义学理论相结合，探讨了《太阳照常升起》中海明威“朴素风格”的语义。研究的重点是小说片段的叙述者如何通过语义事件体验情况。语料库的语言分析表明，小说叙事部分的“质朴风格”是通过协调从句实现的，并且叙述者的事件分割与少量的首选词汇项目相关。这些结果根据事件语义进行解释，以表明首选的词汇项指示叙事部分的典型事件类型。协作从句之间关系的语义分析表明，这些关系不只是关于脱节事件的并置。最后，