Workshop on Semantic Roles in Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition, Lawrence, Kansas, Spring 1993

每一种句法理论都必须解释人类语言如何将语义角色与句法关系联系起来。人类语言始终将与“切”、“给”和“看”动作相关的“代理”角色映射到相同的句法关系中，尽管在case形态学、配置性和动词参数的可选表达方面存在显著的跨语言差异。直到最近，语言学家才以松散定义的语义角色的形式发布期票，以解释跨语言的对齐规则以及许多其他语法现象。长期以来，人们一直认识到，直到语言学家在不同的理论框架内工作，开始研究语义角色反映或从事件的概念结构中衍生出来的方式，这样的描述仍然是粗略的。目前的语言习得研究还集中在语义/句法对齐对语言习得的重要性上。这次会议将使这些研究人员能够批判性地研究语义角色的本质及其在句法理论和语言习得中的作用。

ABSTRACT Every syntactic theory must explain the way human languges align semantic roles with syntactic relations. Human languages consistently map the 'agent' roles associated with the actions 'cut', 'give' and 'see' into the same syntactic relations, despite significant cross-linguistic differences in case morphology, configurationality and the optional expression of verb arguments. Until recently linguists have only issued promissory notes in the form of loosely defined semantic roles to account for cross-linguistic regularities in alignment as well as a host of other syntactic phenomena. It has long been recognized that such accounts remain promissory until linguists, working within various theoritical frameworks, have begun to investigate the way in which semantic roles reflect or derive from the conceptual structure of events. Current research on language acquisition also focuses on the significance of semantic/syntactic alignment for the acquisition of language. This conference will enable these researchers to critically examine the nature of semantic roles and their role in syntactic theory and language acquistion.