摘要
线性序列完全相同的英语tough结构和主语(形容词)控制结构均以to不定式句为其补语,但前者中的空主语PRO具有任指性,空宾语是补语删除的产物;而后者隶属控制结构,空主语PRO依靠先行语的控制获得解读。文章首先从约束原则、VP省略以及歧义性解读等视角提供了区分两类句式的经验证据,然后对两类结构中for DP短语的句法地位予以辨析,最后基于最简方案的语段理论对两类句式的生成机制进行简析。
Tough constructions and adjectival control constructions in English share the identical linear sequence and both take an infinitival to-complement. However,the former' s empty subject PRO refers arbitrarily and its empty object results from the complement deletion,while the latter' s empty subject PRO receives its interpretation from its controller antecedent. On the basis of binding principles,VP ellipsis,ambiguity resolution and the syntactic status of the DP phrases,this article first presents empirical evidence to differentiate the two relevant constructions,and then discusses their derivational differences from the point of phase theory( Chomsky 2008). The proposed two mechanisms both contain three phases with empty subject PRO,but the crucial factors that must be considered are how the relevant empty categories( subjects and objects) receive their semantic references and whether Operator movement is involved in their derivations.
出处
《解放军外国语学院学报》
CSSCI
北大核心
2018年第5期1-10,共10页
Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages
基金
教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地重大项目"中英双语者事件结构表征及其加工机制研究"(14JJD740015)
湖南省社会科学基金项目"事件句法理论模型构建研究"(16YBQ020)
