The role of the syntax-semantics interface in language transfer
The role of the syntax-semantics interface in language transfer
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语法语义接口在语言迁移中的作用
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10.1075/lald.42.14abo
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2006
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E. Aboh
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E. Aboh
克里奥尔语中的限定词短语在形态句法上的变化不能直接归因于上位迁移、下位迁移或普遍语法的独立发展。本文认为，这种差异的结果，从竞争和选择过程中出现的语言接触情况。在这样的语境中，来自不同语言的句法和语义特征竞争形成了新兴的语法。讨论的事实表明，这一过程影响功能类别不同，这取决于他们的语义和许可条件（即，他们的句法）。在假设话语相关特征（如明确性、特殊性）在句法-话语/语义界面上是可见的情况下，我们认为这种竞争可能会导致新兴语言表现出的句法和语义特性联合收割机结合了其底层语言和灵活性语言的句法和语义特性。例如，它表明，即使Gbe语言作为一个触发器的出现，具体的拉美克里奥尔语和海地，只有后者采用Gbe句法在任何程度上，而英语似乎提供了语法的限定词在前语言。讨论进一步表明，语言迁移，如这里所描述的，是受接口的脆弱性一般，更具体地说，语法语义接口。本文从界面的本质出发探讨克理奥尔语化问题，有助于对界面在二语习得中的作用的讨论。这种观点的一个直接后果是，传统上从可学习性的角度考虑的某些事实（例如，拐点的丢失）实际上可能来自接口的属性。
It has been long observed that the determiner phrase in creole languages exhibits morphosyntactic variations that cannot be directly attributed to superstrate transfer, substrate transfer or independent UG development in any obvious way. This paper suggests that such variation results from the competition and selection process that arises in language contact situations. In such contexts, syntactic and semantic features from different languages compete to form the emerging grammar. The facts discussed indicate that this process affects functional categories differently depending on their semantic and licensing conditions (ie, their syntax). Under the assumption that dis course-related features (eg, definiteness, specificity) are visible at the syntaxdiscourse/semantics interface, it is argued that such competition may result in situa tions where the emerging language displays syntactic and semantic properties that combine those of their substrate and lexifier languages. For instance, it is shown that even though the Gbe languages act as a trigger for the emergence of specificity in the Surinamese creoles and in Haitian, only the latter adopted Gbe syntax to any extent, while English seems to have provided the syntax of the determiner in the former lan guages. The discussion further shows that language transfer, as described here, is sub ject to the vulnerability of interfaces in general, and more specifically to that of the syntax-semantics interface. By approaching the issue of creolization from the per spective of the nature of interfaces, this paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the role of interfaces in second language acquisition. A direct consequence of this view is that certain facts (eg, loss of inflection) that are traditionally considered from the point of view of learnability might actually derive from the properties of interfaces.