The fundamental left-right asymmetry in the Germanic verb cluster
The fundamental left-right asymmetry in the Germanic verb cluster
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日耳曼语动词簇中基本的左右不对称
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10.1007/s10828-016-9082-9
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2016
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Abels K
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Cinque（Linguist Inq 36(3):315–332, 2005；当今语言的普遍性。Springer, Dordrecht, pp 165–184, 2009；从上到脚的功能结构。句法结构制图第 9 卷。牛津大学出版社，纽约，第 232–265 页，2014a）观察到存在不对称性词汇中心词的从属词在中心词之前和之后的可能顺序。对将 Cinque 的思想发展成中性词序理论所需的一些概念的反思表明，依赖者需要按类别分开对待。由此产生的系统应用于日耳曼语动词簇中的词序问题。结果表明，理论上得出的对由助动词、情态动词、使役“let”、主要动词和动词助词组成的簇的期望之间存在极其接近的匹配。事实表明，Cinque 的语言基本左右不对称在动词簇领域发挥了作用。与此同时，并非所有动词簇都属于 Cinque 的概括范围，因此，它反对统一对待所有重组情况。
Cinque (Linguist Inq 36(3):315–332, 2005; Universals of language today. Springer, Dordrecht, pp 165–184, 2009; Functional structure from top to toe. Vol. 9 of The cartography of syntactic structures. Oxford University Press, New York, pp 232–265, 2014a) observes that there is an asymmetry in the possible ordering of dependents of a lexical head before versus after the head. A reflection on some of the concepts needed to develop Cinque’s ideas into a theory of neutral word order reveals that dependents need to be treated separately by class. The resulting system is applied to the problem of word order in the Germanic verb cluster. It is shown that there is an extremely close match between theoretically derived expectations for clusters made up of auxiliaries, modals, causative ‘let’, a main verb, and verbal particles. The facts point to the action of Cinque’s fundamental left–right asymmetry in language in the realm of the verb cluster. At the same time, not all verb clusters fall under Cinque’s generalization, which, therefore, argues against treating all cases of restructuring uniformly.