Control in Skwxwu7mesh
Control in Skwxwu7mesh
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Skwxwu7mesh 中的控制
DOI：
10.14288/1.0071786
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发表时间：
2011
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0.1
通讯作者：
Peter Jacobs
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作者：
Peter Jacobs
本论文研究了 Sḵwxwu7mesh（又名 Squamish 语言）中的控制现象。 30多年来，控制概念一直是萨利山语言传统的一部分，它被描述为“主体对事件的控制程度”（Thompson 1979）。它被描述为具有两个值之一：受控或有限控制。控制者被理解为有目的地发起事件、控制事件的进程并使事件达到高潮。控制能力有限的代理可能会无意中发起事件，或者在事件的过程中遇到困难，从而只能设法完成事件。在这篇论文中，我认为控制应该被正确地理解为一种结构。也就是说，它不是任何一个语素的基本含义的一部分。相反，它是根据有关事件的现实世界知识和用于编码这些事件的结构的形态语法构建的。
我认为控制结构具有方面的核心意义。控制谓词（或c-谓词）以事件启动为其核心含义。有限控制谓词（或 lc 谓词）将事件高潮作为其核心含义（Ritter 和 Rosen 2000）。他们是远程的。我认为，正是从这两种含义——事件开始和事件高潮——推断出通常与控制相关的其他概念（例如故意、意外等）。我提出对两种类型谓词之间的核心方面差异进行形态句法分析。特别是，我认为它们在宾语一致性的位置上有所不同：c-谓词的宾语一致性是VP内部的，而lc-谓词的宾语一致性与扩展言语投影内的方面节点相关联。我探讨了这一提议对重建原始萨利什语，特别是对 Sḵwxwu7mesh 的历史发展的影响。
This dissertation is an examination of the phenomenon of control in Sḵwxwu7mesh (a.k.a the Squamish language). The notion of control has been part of the Salishan linguistic tradition for more than 30 years and it has been described as the ‘degree of control an agent has over an event’ (Thompson 1979). It has been described as having one of two values: in control or limited control. An agent who is in control, is understood to initiate an event on purpose, to have control over the process of the event and to bring the event to culmination. An agent who has limited control may unintentionally initiate an event, or have difficulty in the process of the event and thus only managed to bring the event to completion. In this dissertation I argue that control is properly understood as a construct. That is, it is not a part of the basic meaning of any one morpheme. Rather it is constructed from both real world knowledge about events and from the morphosyntax of the constructions that are used to encode these events.
I argue that control constructions have an aspectual core meaning. A control predicate (or c-predicate) has event initiation as its core meaning. A limited control predicate (or lc-predicate) has event culmination as its core meaning (Ritter and Rosen 2000). They are telic. I argue that it is from these two meanings - event initiation and event culmination - that the other notions commonly associated with control are inferred (e.g. on purpose, accidentally, etc.). I propose a morpho-syntactic analysis for the core aspectual difference between the two types of predicates. In particular, I argue that they differ in the position of object agreement: object agreement of c-predicates is VP-internal, while object agreement of lc-predicates is associated with an aspectual node within the extended verbal projection. I explore the consequences of this proposal for the reconstruction of Proto-Salish in general, and for the historical development of Sḵwxwu7mesh in particular.