本文考察《語苑》和《閩南語故事集》，發現歹(phainn2)出現在四種句法位置：謂語形容詞、次要謂語、定語形容詞、副詞。本文認為歹的語義是詮釋未決的，需要透過和名詞的共同組合，才能得到正確的語義詮釋。因此，釐清歹分別與什麼樣的名詞的物性結構(功用角色、施成角色、形式角色、施成角色)結合有助於我們將歹的語義以簡馭繁。本文以此觀點出發，將歹劃分為謂語形容詞6個句式、次要謂語4個句式、定語形容詞3個類別、副詞2個句式，並發現歹的維度類型有：功能、食用功能、脾氣、品質、道德、味/視/聽覺、信息、舉止、命運預兆、人的部件。這些維度分別由名詞本身或其物性結構所提供，使原本單一語義的歹，在表層語義產生多義性，名詞對謂語形容詞歹的語義影響也直接反映在句法表現上。另外，副詞歹的兩個句式的差別在於「事件/非事件」、「直接證據/間接證據」。最後，我們提出維度可分成「隱性」、「顯性」、「可隱可顯」維度，且形容的語義除了包括「個體論元」或「事件論元」外，還需要一個「量級維度論元」。

This study aims to investigate the polysemy of phainn2 (歹), which appears in four syntactic positions: predicative adjectives, secondary predicates, attributive adjectives, and adverbs. The semantics of phainn2 is underspecified and therefore phainn2 that is co-composed of different kinds of qualia structures of nouns have different interpretations. This research found that phainn2 has the following dimensions：function, function of edible food, temper, quality, morality, the sense of taste/ vison/ hearing, information, behavior, fate, and parts of the human body. These dimensions are provided from the qualia structure of nouns or nouns themselves and lead to the polysemy of phainn2. These dimensions can be divided into three types：overt dimensions, covert dimensions, and overt/covert dimensions. This paper also explores the differences between two patterns of adverbial phainn2：event/non-event and direct evidence/in-direct evidence and proposes the concept of the dimensional argument.

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