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英语的way构式义为“定向创路前行”。通过文献和语料库调查，本研究关于此构式的历时演进有如下发现：1）早期构式中的“way”有实义，旁格不必出现；而当前的“way”义抽象化，旁格必现；2）与早期构式不同，当前构式压制并整合很多参与动词的题元组配；3）此构式的历时演进是个扩容过程，早期的三个动词句群发生变异或趋于萎缩，而当前构式中有十二个动词句群。考察结论为早期的构式义具体，当前的构式义抽象；构式演变及其句法变异的动因是语用需求和语义迁变。将构式语法与语法化理论相结合能对构式演变作出较好的描述和解释。
영어적way구식의위“정향창로전행”。통과문헌화어료고조사，본연구관우차구식적력시연진유여하발현：1）조기구식중적“way”유실의，방격불필출현；이당전적“way”의추상화，방격필현；2）여조기구식불동，당전구식압제병정합흔다삼여동사적제원조배；3）차구식적력시연진시개확용과정，조기적삼개동사구군발생변이혹추우위축，이당전구식중유십이개동사구군。고찰결론위조기적구식의구체，당전적구식의추상；구식연변급기구법변이적동인시어용수구화어의천변。장구식어법여어법화이론상결합능대구식연변작출교호적묘술화해석。
The way construction entails that the subject referent moves along a self-created path towards the destination. By way of literature review and corpus investigation, the present study has obtained the following findings on its diachronic chan- ges. First, the OBL phrase is not obligatory in the early-day construction with way in its concrete meaning, whereas the phrase must co-appear with the abstract meaning of way in the present-day construction. Second, different from its early days, the construction coerces and integrates the thematic roles of the participating verbs. Finally, the diachronic evolution of the con- struction has witnessed a process of category expansion, in which the three original clusters of verbs vary or shrink and twelve clusters of verbs have found their way to the present-day construction. Our survey has reached the conclusion that the seman- tics of the early-day construction is concrete while that of the present-day one quite general and that it is the pragmatic require- ment and semantic variation that result in the construction evolution as well as its syntactic changes. Diachronic evolution of such constructions can be better described and explained by the combination of Construction Grammar and Theory of Grammati- calization.