Subject Islands, Reconstruction, and the Flow of the Computation
Subject Islands, Reconstruction, and the Flow of the Computation
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附属岛屿、重建和计算流程
作者：
V. Bianchi;C. Chesi
最近的研究强调了主题岛效应的显著变化。我们以不及物动词和形容词为研究对象，认为岛屿性是由句法-语义界面决定的：当主语在小句的谓词核心之外被解释时，它们就有资格成为岛屿，在一个范畴LF结构中（Ladusaw，1994）;当它们经历到谓词核心的完全重构时，它们是透明的，可以被提取出来，从而产生一个审美结构。我们的实验证据表明，情感/范畴解释取决于各种因素（最明显的是谓词的阶段水平与个体水平的性质），其相互作用解释了观察到的岛屿效应的变异性。主题重构的相关性不需要规定，而是从一个自上而下的面向计算，其中运动的依赖性是由存储和检索机制实现的。
Recent research has highlighted a remarkable variability in subject island effects. Focusing on intransitive verbs and adjectives, we argue that islandhood is determined at the syntax-semantics interface: subjects qualify as islands when they are interpreted outside the predicative nucleus of the clause, in a categorical LF structure (Ladusaw 1994); they are transparent for extraction when they undergo total reconstruction into the predicative nucleus, giving rise to a thetic structure. The thetic/categorical interpretation depends on various factors (most notably the stage-level versus individual-level nature of the predicate), whose interaction accounts for the observed variability of island effects, as shown by our experimental evidence. The relevance of subject reconstruction need not be stipulated; rather, it follows from a top-down-oriented computation, in which movement dependencies are implemented by a storage-and-retrieval mechanism.