Further Specification Analysis of the Unique Path Constraint Effect: From the Perspective of Spatial Extension
Further Specification Analysis of the Unique Path Constraint Effect: From the Perspective of Spatial Extension
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独特路径约束效应的进一步规范分析：空间延伸的视角
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10.5430/elr.v2n2p141
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2013
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Masaki Yasuhara
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Masaki Yasuhara
有人认为，单个子句可能不包括状态变化表达式和位置变化表达式（例如，Sam把Bill踢得青一块紫一块地赶出房间）。。这种共现限制被称为唯一路径约束效应。本文的目的是表明这种约束来自事件结构的本质——假设一个事件结构最多可以由两个内部事件组成，那么单个事件可能不包含一个以上的明显变化。我认为明显的反例（例如，约翰把鸡蛋打进碗里。），也可以用本文提供的基于事件的分析来解释。当状态变化表达式和位置变化表达式处于进一步的规范关系中时，它们在单个子句中同时出现是可能的。在这种情况下，这两个表达式引用单个统一更改的不同方面，因此它们可以合法地与单个子事件相关联。本文证明，当状态变化表达式表示的事件涉及空间扩展时，空间扩展由位置变化表达式指定，则满足进一步的规范关系。本文为基于事件的唯一路径约束效应分析提供了经验证据，从而为人类语言被设计为对事件结构敏感的观点提供了经验支持。
It has been argued that a single clause may not include a change of state expression and a change of location expression (e.g., * Sam kicked Bill black and blue out of the room. ). This co-occurrence restriction is known as the Unique Path Constraint effect. The purpose of this paper is to show that this constraint comes from the nature of event structure ― assuming that an event structure can be composed of at most two internal events, a single event may not include more than one distinct change. I argue that apparent counterexamples (e.g., John broke the egg into the bowl. ), which are presented in the literature, can also be explained under the event-based analysis provided in this paper. The co-occurrence of a change of state expression and a change of location expression in a single clause is possible when they are in a further specification relation. In such a case, the two expressions refer to different aspects of a single unified change, so they can be licitly associated with a single subevent. In this paper, I show that a further specification relation is satisfied when an event that is expressed by a change of state expression involves spatial extension, and the spatial extension is specified by a change of location expression. This paper provides empirical evidence for the event-based analysis of the Unique Path Constraint effect, and consequently provides empirical support for the idea that human language is devised as sensitive to event structure.