The Origin and Content of Expletives: Evidence from “Selection”
The Origin and Content of Expletives: Evidence from “Selection”
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咒骂的来源与内容：来自“选择”的证据
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2009
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A. R. Deal
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A. R. Deal
摘要：虽然咒骂语there主要是在存现结构的语境中进行研究的，但人们早就知道，有些但不是所有的词汇动词都与there插入语相容。 本文认为，有插入可以用来诊断没有外部参数的vP，排除及物动词，非作格动词，也inchoatives，这被认为是项目上的事件论元的边缘vP。基于there插入语与低功能结构之间的紧密联系，本文构建了一个低there插入语的实例，其中，咒骂语首先被合并到动词化中心语v的限定语中。低合并位置的产生是因为there与其关联的DP之间存在严格的局部关系;这种关系在there与提升动词的相互作用中起着至关重要的作用，地方协议排除了“太多的存在”的情况，例如 * 房间里似乎有一个男人。这些情况下，在相位理论的帐户进行了探讨，我最终建议，必须合并在一个非主题的短语说明符的位置。
Abstract. While expletive there has primarily been studied in the context of the existential construction, it has long been known that some but not all lexical verbs are compatible with there insertion. This paper argues that there insertion can be used to diagnose vPs with no external argument, ruling out transitives, unergatives, and also inchoatives, which are argued to project an event argument on the edge of vP. Based on the tight link between there insertion and low functional structure, I build a case for low there insertion, where the expletive is first merged in the specifier of a verbalizing head v. The low merge position is motivated by a stringently local relationship that holds between there and its associate DP; this relationship plays a crucial role in the interaction of there with raising verbs, where local agreement rules out cases of “too many theres” such as *There seemed there to be a man in the room. An account of these cases in terms of phase theory is explored, in which I ultimately suggest that there must be merged in a nonthematic phasal specifier position.