Contrastive linguistics and micro-variation: The role of dialectology
Contrastive linguistics and micro-variation: The role of dialectology
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对比语言学和微观变异：方言学的作用
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2012
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C. Poletto
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这篇文章涉及一个非常普遍的问题，即众所周知的方言变异和类型变异之间的区别的起源。有人认为，事实上，可能的语法选择更受限制的方言域是由于一个假设的原则性差异的参数，规则的变化。相反，它们是原本单一的方言词汇的一种功能。如果语言变异本质上位于功能项中，并且它们都来自同一个词汇，那么它们将共享一些使方言变异如此受限的核心属性。我建议，事实上，词汇是相似的，可以给我们线索的内部结构的句法复杂的元素是由一个词，如量词，wh项目，情态动词等，在一个同质域，结构复杂性与较高的词根数量：词根的数量越高，更复杂的内部结构的功能项目将显示。
This article deals with a very general problem, namely the origin of the well-known distinction between dialectal and typological variation. It is argued that the fact that the possible grammatical choices are more restricted within a dialectal domain is not due to a supposed principled difference in the parameters that rule variation. Rather, they are a function of the originally unitary lexicon dialects share. If language variation is essentially located in the functional items, and they are derived from the same lexicon, then they will share some core properties that make dialectal variation so restricted. I propose that the fact that the lexicon is similar can give us clues about the internal structure of syntactically complex elements which are represented by a single word, like quantifiers, wh-items, modal verbs, etc. Within a homogenous domain, structural complexity correlates with a higher number of lexical roots: the higher the number of the lexical roots found, the more complex internal structure the functional item will display.