When a linguist draws a line
When a linguist draws a line
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2010
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B. Cappelle;Naoaki Wada
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B. Cappelle;Naoaki Wada
2007年秋天，德克莱尔给穆顿·德·格鲁伊特的《英语语言学专题》系列的编辑贝恩德·科特曼和伊丽莎白·克洛斯·特劳戈特发了一封信，告诉他们他的慢性健康问题使他无法继续他的多语种著作《英语动词短语的语法》。当他写的消息，Declerck辞职自己意识到，他可能永远无法进行任何认真的研究。Declerck的语言学工作一直是由一个比发达的责任感和决定，以结束它必须同样审议作为解放。当Declerck在他积极参与语言学研究时画了一条线，他已经在语言学类别之间画了许多细线。在他的整个职业生涯中，Declerck小心翼翼地梳理其他人可能混淆的现象。在这方面，他把自己描述成一个“分裂者”，而不是一个“捣乱者”。用生物学家辛普森（Simpson，1945：23）的话来说，"分裂者看到的是非常小的、高度分化的单位--他们的批评者说，如果他们能区分两种动物，他们就把它们归为不同的属......如果他们不能区分它们，他们就把它们放在不同的物种中。...另一方面，鲁珀斯人只看到大的单位-他们的批评者说，如果食肉动物既不是狗也不是熊，他们就叫它猫。作为Declerck方法的一个典型例子，考虑一下他在专门讨论该主题的专著（Declerck（1997））中提出的when-clauses（WC）类型。他区分不少于
In the autumn of the year 2007, Renaat Declerck sent a message to Bernd Kortmann and Elizabeth Closs Traugott, the editors of Mouton de Gruyter’s book series Topics in English Linguistics, informing them of chronic health problems which prevented him from continuing his multivolume work The Grammar of the English verb phrase. When he wrote the message, Declerck had resigned himself to the realisation that he might never be able to conduct any serious research. Declerck’s linguistic work had always been driven by a more than well-developed sense of duty and the decision to put an end to it must therefore have been equally deliberated as liberating. By the time Declerck drew a line at his active involvement in linguistic research, he had drawn many a fine line between linguistic categories. Throughout his career, Declerck was careful to tease apart phenomena which others might have confused. In this respect, he profiled himself more as a ‘splitter’ than as a ‘lumper.’ In the words of the biologist Simpson (1945: 23), “splitters see very small, highly differentiated units— their critics say that if they can tell two animals apart, they place them in different genera ... and if they cannot tell them apart, they place them in different species. ... Lumpers, on the other hand, see only large units— their critics say that if a carnivore is neither a dog nor a bear, they call it a cat.” As one typical example of Declerck’s approach, consider the typology of when-clauses (WCs) that he proposed in an entire monograph devoted to the subject (Declerck (1997)). He distinguishes no fewer than