词典里的Big Mess Construction，兼推荐Vocabulary.com Examples

klwo2

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https://www.pdawiki.com/forum/thread-40157-1-1.html
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" Z2 N3 i3 |' J. |/ k# n! r" u我发现Big Mess Construction好像是比较新的英语语法现象，所以利用Goldendict 全文搜索搜了一下「 as big a 」，你们猜怎么着，真的哎！

0 {( S6 b: L0 r先说原句：Even though gas-fired heating and cooking can be at least as big a source of greenhouse-gas emissions, renewable heating gets minuscule attention.

% M/ ]* {% u) {2 O! e/ j虽说用天然气取暖啊做饭啊也是挺大的一个排放源，排放起温室气体来，不比别的能源逊色，可是那些个可再生的取暖法、取暖能源也没多少人关注。

这句子还是有点绕的。全文搜索发现，有的词典里面有类似的句子。牛津高阶10：

Housing has become almost as big a problem as education.

老版的牛津高阶没有。

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1929        
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There is almost as big a market for bootleg disk records as there is for bootlegged books.

1929年的句子
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1958        
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The Liu was almost as big a pain in the neck as the previous night's Preziosilla.

1958年

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Intrapreneurs, the people who start new businesses inside established companies, will soon be as big a catchword as entrepreneurs (Economist).

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150. Ms. Johnson, while not a native of Louisiana, was as big a champion of the region as anyone.
Jul 25, 2015 - New York Times

179. This one seemed as big a mismatch with the Harrison twins and bevy of big bodies to control the struggling Gamecocks.
Jan 24, 2015 - Washington Times

42. "It put a little dampener on it, but it's just as big a race," Gay said.
Dec 13, 2010 - The Guardian

26. “That was about as big a shot of adrenaline as you could ask for,” Robinson said.
Jul 4, 2015 - Washington Times

53. According to the film, nearly 50% of young white Americans believe discrimination against whites is as big a problem as discrimination against blacks.
Jul 24, 2015 - Time

96. For now, caveat emptor is going to remain as big a part of sushi culture as soy sauce and wasabi.
Feb 21, 2013 - Time

我知道有人要笑话我，这不是老宝贝了嘛，怎么又广告起来了？只当是给新来的看看呗！
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rococoeer

"Housing has become almost as big a problem as education."
这个句子并不是BMC吧。这是as……as的结构。 在比较结构中，有as+adj+冠词+名词+as+比较对象这样的结构，还是很有规则的。

klwo2

rococoeer 发表于 2020-4-30 22:11
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( [5 k0 K" a& c这个句子并不是BMC吧。这是as……as的结构 ...

3 g" J! w/ O7 {/ qBig Mess Construction是语法学家叫出来的术语，人家也没说不规则啊，请看Van Eynde, Frank. 2007. The Big Mess Construction. In Muller, Stefan (Ed.), ¨ Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase StructureGrammar, Stanford Department of Linguistics and CSLI’s LinGO Lab, 415–433.Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.：

In English noun phrases the determiner canonically precedes the prenominal adjectives, both the lexical and the phrasal ones.
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b. a very big house
(2) a. * big a house
b. * very big a house
A notable exception are the adjectival phrases which are introduced by as, so, too,
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article, they precede the determiner (Huddleston and Pullum, 2002, 435).

六个典型词是as so too how this that。
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0 O, Q0 L$ }% L这个概念是Berman, J. 1974. Adjectives and adjective complement constructions in English.Ph. D.thesis, Harvard University.里面提出来的，你找作者理论去。
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随便找找提及Big Mess Construction的论文，有如下例句：
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0 n$ r5 g3 x7 M3 D, w. m' lBob didn’t write [as detailed a proposal] as Sheila did.
Bob didn’t write [as detailed of a proposal] as Sheila did

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6 z- A! J+ O: S7 A# {1. 明摆着这个现象是不限于as的， so too how this that 都能这么用，也不一定非有第二个as不可，哪能以偏概全呢？
: W% S* m# E- E4 S5 q7 h2. 传统语法书里头没提及as...as...能这么用，你要认可这是as...as...，得扩充传统语法
; ^& g) Q7 s' X: `8 b6 K3. 要点也不是非要叫什么名字，而是怎么叫方便研究、方便解释。Big Mess Construction现象的要点是，凭嘛形容词能放到冠词前头？「一棵好大的树」「一个跟姚明一样高的小伙子」凭什么能说成「好大的一棵树」「跟姚明一样高的一个小伙子」？你要是归纳成「跟……一样」的特殊用法，就偏了呀


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