Verb Movement

动词运动

• 批准号: 8812408
• 负责人: David Lightfoot
• 金额: $ 19.99万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-06-15 至 1992-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8812408&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Verb; Movement

ABSTRACT In a large class of languages there are sentences in which verbs appear in non-canonical positions. These phenomena have recently been analyzed in terms of verb movement, a process that raises unique empriical and theoretical questions. The movement of heads (such as verbs) displays very special properties which differ from the movement properties of phrasal categories, which have been a major focus of syntactic research from the inception of generative grammar. The movement of verbs is strictly local and displays significant variation from language to language. The central empirical question is whether verb movement processes manifest a single unique grammatical operation across construc- tions and across languages. The central theoretical issue is whether the observed locality and variation can be reduced to the principles governing the behavior of phrasal categories. Three ideas lie at the center of the research. First, there are two types of verb movement processes: one moves the verb to an auxiliary position, the other moves it to a presentential position. Second, these movements leave behind traces which are subject to a head government condition which operates in the phonology and, possibly, to the Binding Conditions in Logical Form. The third idea is that the classical notion of movement should be reinterpreted in terms of relatedness among multiple representations. This involves generalizing the notion of derivation in terms of the concept "delocalized" category. These central ideas can be formally realized in many different ways. The correct formulation will be shaped by the need to parameterize the emerging theory so that it accommodates the observed variations appropriately. The parameterization must be responsive to both synchronic variation among languages and diachronic relationships among stages of a given language. Extensive work on variation among the Romance and Germanic languages and on the history of English and French strongly suggests that differences cluster in identifiable subgroups which reflect a small number of underlying parameters. The project focuses on a related set of central issues in contemporary linguistic theory. The investigators will examine a number of different languages and attempt to develop and refine a theoretical model of grammar which can account for the variations among them in a thorough and parsimonious way. A successful outcome of the project would provide a significant advance in our understanding of the underlying nature of language, and hence of the human mind.

摘要 在一大类语言中， 动词出现在非规范位置。 这些现象 最近被分析的动词运动，一个过程， 提出了独特的经验和理论问题。 运动 中心词（如动词）的特殊性质， 不同于短语范畴的运动特性， 从一开始就是句法研究的主要焦点 生成语法 动词的移动是严格局部的 并且在不同的语言中表现出显著的差异。 中心的实证问题是动词移位过程是否 显示出一个独特的语法操作 和跨语言。 核心理论问题是 观察到的局部性和变化是否可以减少到 支配短语范畴行为的原则。 研究的中心有三个想法。 一是 有两种类型的动词移动过程：一种是将动词移动到 一个辅助位置，另一个将其移动到当前位置 位置 其次，这些运动留下的痕迹， 但须符合在 音系学，也可能是逻辑学中的约束条件。 Form. 第三个观点是经典的运动概念 应该重新解释的相关性之间的多重 表示。 这涉及到推广的概念 在概念上的推导“离域”范畴。 这些中心思想可以在许多形式上实现， 不同的方式 正确的公式将由 我需要对新出现的理论进行参数化， 观察到的变化。 参数化必须 对语言间的共时变化作出反应， 特定语言各阶段之间的历时关系。 广泛的工作之间的变化浪漫和日耳曼 语言和历史上的英语和法语强烈 表明差异集中在可识别的亚组中， 反映了少量的基本参数。 该项目的重点是一系列相关的中心问题， 当代语言学理论 调查人员将检查 许多不同的语言，并试图开发和完善一个 一种语法理论模型，可以解释 在他们中间，有一个彻底的和吝啬的方式。 一个成功 该项目的成果将为我们提供一个重大的进步， 对语言本质的理解， 人类的思想