摘要
句法理论中不同研究者所谓的“轻动词”具有不同的内涵,它们分属三种不同的语类:轻动词(light verb v)、元动词(proto-verb)和助动词(auxiliary verb),分别投射vP,VP和TP三种不同的结构。轻动词v作为“核心功能语类”,只包含在接口不可解读的形式特征,是一个纯句法的构件,不表达任何语义内容,选择VP作补语。元动词起塑造或改变事态结构的作用,表达语义内容,与补语之间呈多样性的选择关系。元动词和普通实义动词都表达语义内容,只不过在语义结构的饱和程度方面有所差别。助动词范畴的内部成分复杂,各类助动词可以有自己独立的功能投射,表达一定的词汇意义或包含在接口可解读的形式特征。在句法推导中,元动词和普通实义动词一样,都作为主动词在V处合并;轻动词v在成分统制V的位置合并;各类助动词在成分统制v的位置合并。
Researchers have been divided in defining the syntactic category light verb v.What they call light verb can be reasonably put into three distinct categories:light verb v,proto-verb and auxiliary verb with their respective projections vP,VP and TP.The light verb v,as a Core Functional Category,is composed only of formal features uninterpretable at LF and selects VP as its Complement.Proto-verbs possess semantic content,contribute to the shaping of eventualities and select various categories as their Complement.Proto-verbs and canonical verbs both express semantic content,differing only in the degree of semantic saturation.The category of auxiliary verbs is heterogeneous and its members may have different projections,all independent of v.There is a hierarchical C-Command relationship between an auxiliary verb,the light verb v and a proto-verb in syntactic representation and derivation.
出处
《现代外语》
CSSCI
北大核心
2007年第2期111-123,共13页
Modern Foreign Languages
基金
本研究得到广东外语外贸大学外国语言学及应用语言学研究中心的资助
