BI-UNIQUE RELATIONS AND THE MATURATION OF GRAMMATICAL PRINCIPLES
BI-UNIQUE RELATIONS AND THE MATURATION OF GRAMMATICAL PRINCIPLES
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DOI：
10.1007/bf00133811
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发表时间：
1992-05-01
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
WEXLER, K
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作者：
BORER, H;WEXLER, K
本文的目的是主张一个成熟的时间表，在语言发展中涉及逐步重新制定的UG确定的双唯一的关系。我们调查的早期阶段（约2;0），在儿童意大利语，这表明对象协议与分词的词汇对象，一种现象没有证明在标准的成人意大利语。我们提供了一个分析分词协议在成人意大利语，规格头协议的基础上。然后，我们认为，儿童分析分词短语与直接对象作为AP，而不是作为传递的VP，导致扩展的Spec-Head协议之间的关系的分词和它的对象。我们认为，儿童的这一错误源于儿童语法中存在成熟决定的唯一外部论证原原则（UEAPP），该原则要求每一个表语成分都有自己独特的主语。UEAPP的独立证据是由证实的预测，即儿童在对象协议阶段不使用非作格动词在passato prossimo。来自早期波兰语的其他证据进一步证实了我们的分析，我们进一步表明，儿童语言中的空主语阶段来自UEAPP。最后，我们概述了我们提出的成熟时间表。
The purpose of this paper is to argue for a maturational schedule in language development involving the gradual reformulation of UG-determined biunique relations. We investigate an early stage (about 2;0) in child Italian which shows object agreement with a participle for lexical objects, a phenomenon not attested in standard adult Italian. We provide an analysis for participle agreement in adult Italian, based on Spec-Head agreement. We then argue that the child analyzes participle phrases with direct objects as APs, rather than as transitive VPs, resulting in an extension of Spec-Head agreement to the relations between the participle and its object. This error on the part of the child, we argue, derives from the existence in the child's grammar of the maturationally-determined Unique External Argument Proto Principle (UEAPP), requiring every predicative element to have its own unique subject. Independent evidence for UEAPP is provided hy the confirmed prediction that children in the object agreement stage do not use unergative verbs in the passato prossimo. Additional evidence from early Polish further confirms our analysis, and we further show that the null subject stage in child language follows from UEAPP. We conclude by outlining the maturational schedule we propose.