Toward a Unified Grammar of Reference
Toward a Unified Grammar of Reference
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走向统一的参考语法
DOI：
10.1515/zfsw.2005.24.1.5
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发表时间：
2005
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影响因子：
56.9
通讯作者：
G. Longobardi
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作者：
G. Longobardi
摘要 将传统上不同且明显不相关的研究对象统一到共同的更抽象的原则下是实证科学最受欢迎的结果之一。本文建议将 Longobardi (1994, 1996, 2001) 的一些见解汇集到一个统一的对象引用和种类引用理论中，该理论被视为单一的语法现象，尽管是跨语言参数化的。本说明旨在提高刚刚引用的文章中概述的准确性和解释力。为此，这些著作的综合主要直觉首先在第 6 节中阐述为对名词形式/含义关系的更深入概括，然后从更有原则的映射理论中推导出来，提出句法上指定的位置（传统上标记为 D）在许多语言中负责人类基本语言能力之一，即对个体的引用（拓扑映射理论）。在可供个人参考的句法机制统一之后，几乎所有其他区别都只是精确地遵循卡尔森（1977a）本体论中预览的两种实体（种类和对象）之间的区别，间接证实了其持续的启发力，以及最近句法理论广泛接受的经济条件。
Abstract The unification of traditionally distinct and apparently unrelated objects of inquiry under common more abstract principles is one of the most welcome results of empirical science. This article proposes to draw together some insights of Longobardi (1994, 1996, 2001) into a unified theory of object- and kind-reference viewed as a single grammatical phenomenon, though crosslinguistically parametrized. The present account aims to improve both in accuracy and explanatory force over those outlined in the articles just cited. To do so, the combined leading intuitions of such works are first spelt out, in section 6, into a deeper generalization about the form/meaning relation in nominals and later deduced from a more principled mapping theory, proposing that a syntactically specified position, traditionally labeled D, is responsible in many languages for one of human fundamental linguistic abilities, reference to individuals (Topological Mapping Theory). After the unification of the syntactic mechanisms available for reference to individuals, virtually all other distinctions simply follow precisely from that between the two varieties of such entities (kinds and objects) previewed in Carlson’s (1977a) ontology, indirectly confirming its continuing heuristic power, and from widely accepted economy conditions of recent syntactic theory.