Author(s)

Pan Mingxiao ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Liberal Arts, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 210023, China

Corresponding Author

Pan Mingxiao

ABSTRACT

In modern Vietnamese, the frequency of occurrence of 'bị' is quite high in the events with passive meaning. Vietnamese linguistic have had many researches on the categories and grammatical functions of 'bị', but up to now, there is still no consensus on these issues. 'Bị' is ultimately notional verb (the verb has the full lexical meaning) or plays as a modal verb (the modal verb denote state in a sentence, including desire, allowed or required) or auxiliary verbs (denote the passive meaning)? Through the application of Conceptual Integration Theory and Compression Theory (including Energy Transfer Theory) of Cognitive Construction Grammar to the analysis of the 'bị'constructions 'bị + VP', 'bị + NP' and 'bị + AdjP', this paper explains how the underlying forces make these constructions possible or impossible to indicate the passive meaning, while refuting the idea that in the 'bị + NP' construction, 'bị' is always the notional verb that means 'to suffer (from)'. In addition, the analysis also shows that, in certain cases, the 'bị + AdjP' construction can still denote the passive meaning, thereby, disproving the idea that in the 'bị + AdjP' construction, 'bị' plays as a modal verb.

KEYWORDS

Vietnamese; The Passive Construction 'Bị'; Cognitive Construction

CITE THIS PAPER

Pan Mingxiao, The Vietnamese Passive Construction 'Bị' from the Perspective of Cognitive Construction Grammar. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2025) Vol. 8: 46-53. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2025.080408.

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