摘要
英汉非宾格结构句首名词的话题或主语属性本质上源自于相关不可解读形式特征的性质。形成主语的论元移位是由移位性特征EPP使然,而形成话题的非论元移位则由移位性特征EF触发而成。正是因为两种移位的性质取决于不同的形式特征,因此才会导致句首名词具有主语或话题属性。基于最简方案的理论进展,本文试图把汉语功能语类C上EF特征的必选性归因于汉语话题成分的语法化,而把英语功能语类T上EPP特征的必选性归因于英语主语成分的语法化。儿童语言习得中的正面证据在一定程度上支持这种设想。
The initial NP's property(as topic or subject) in unaccusative constructions in both English and Chinese is determined by the uninterpretable formal features concerned.It is subject to two types of movement: the argument movement,which leads to the formation of a subject and is triggered by the movement feature EPP,and the non-argument movement,which establishes one copy of the argument as a topic and is enabled by the movement feature EF.These two types of movement arise respectively from two types of uninterpretable formal features.On the basis of the latest minimalist analysis,this article attempts to attribute the obligatoriness of EF feature on functional category C to the grammaticalization of topics in Chinese and the obligatoriness of EPP feature on functional category T to the grammaticalization of subjects in English.The positive evidence in the process of child language acquisition,to a certain extent,lends support to such an assumption.
出处
《外国语言文学》
2011年第2期78-85,144,共8页
Foreign Language and Literature Studies
基金
广东省哲学社会科学"十一五"规划2010年度项目"上距离句法结构的句法语义分析及其二语习得研究"(编号:GD10YWW04)
