Clefts and Their Relatives
Clefts and Their Relatives
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裂口及其亲属
DOI：
10.1075/la.185
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发表时间：
2012
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通讯作者：
Matthew Reeve
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作者：
Matthew Reeve
分裂构式长期以来一直是句法理论的一个分析难题。这本专著认为，裂缝和相关的结构不能分析在一个直截了当的组成方式。相反，它建议修改（例如通过限制性关系从句）的位置条件必须重新表述，使它们能够解释DP内部修改的明显组合性，同时也允许“不连续”修改类型，这是独立需要的结构，如关系从句外置。这本书的实证重点是英语和俄语中的分裂，这两种语言有着相似的解释，但在句法结构上有很大的不同。作者认为，尽管有这些句法差异，这两种类型的分裂映射到他们的语义解释以相同的方式。这本专著将是必不可少的阅读为那些工作的分裂结构和系动词句子更普遍，并将有兴趣的那些工作的句法语义界面。
Cleft constructions have long presented an analytical challenge for syntactic theory. This monograph argues that clefts and related constructions cannot be analysed in a straightforwardly compositional manner. Instead, it proposes that the locality conditions on modification (for example by a restrictive relative clause) must be reformulated such that they account for the apparent compositionality of DP-internal modification whilst also permitting ‘discontinuous’ modification of the type which is independently needed for constructions such as relative clause extraposition. The empirical focus of the book is on clefts in English and Russian, which have a similar interpretation but considerably divergent syntactic structures. The author argues that, despite these syntactic differences, both types of cleft are mapped to their semantic interpretations in the same manner. This monograph will be essential reading for those working on cleft constructions and copular sentences more generally, and will be of interest to those working on the syntax-semantics interface.