Workshop on the Limits of Syntax, Columbus, Ohio, Fall 1995

句法限制研讨会，俄亥俄州哥伦布，1995 年秋季

• 批准号: 9507805
• 负责人: Peter Culicover
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-08-01 至 1996-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9507805&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Limits; Syntax; Columbus; Ohio

SBR-9507805 CULICOVER ABSTRACT Over the past thirty-five years, generative grammarians have made a great deal of progress in understanding human language by characterizing a very wide range of linguistic phenomena in syntactic terms. This inquiry has focused on developing theories that illuminate speaker competence and it has led to many interesting and successful predictions about cross-linguistic similarities and differences. However, as this reqearch has grown to incorporate a greater variety of within-language and cross-linguistic data, it has become increasingly clear that certain phenomena that have been given widely accepted syntactic explanations (for instance, constraints on question formation or the distribution of pronouns) quite possibly cannot be analyzed in exclusively syntactic terms without an undesirable impact on the explanatory value of the syntactic theories themselves. Consequently, it is essential to explore seriously the question of how the greater incorporation of nonsyntactic explanations into linguistic research could deepen our understanding of problematic linguistic phenomena and, at the same time, strengthen syntactic theory. We will hold a workshop as a forum for such an exploration, with the following overarching goals: identifying clear and convincing arguments that some or all aspects of a given linguistic phenomenon must or cannot be analyzed syntactically; identifying and evaluating specific proposals for nonsyntactic analyses of natural language phenomena; exploring the implications of candidate nonsyntactic analyses for syntactic theory; and exploring whether and how nonsyntactic analyses of linguistic phenomena can be expressed in a "parameterizable" theory that can cover typologically diverse languages. Among the topics to be explored in the workshop will be: constraints on extraction, bound variable anaphora, and th e "triggering" of movement. These examples all share the potential of being illuminated by a theory or theories of the informational import of sentences -particularly their presuppositional properties and informational articulation.

9507805 CULICOVER摘要在过去的三十五年里，生成语法学家通过用句法术语描述非常广泛的语言现象，在理解人类语言方面取得了很大的进步。这项研究致力于发展解释说话人能力的理论，并导致了许多关于跨语言相似性和差异性的有趣而成功的预测。然而，随着这项研究越来越多地纳入语言内和跨语言的数据，人们越来越清楚地认识到，某些已被广泛接受的句法解释现象(例如，对疑问句形成的限制或代词的分布)很可能无法完全从句法角度进行分析，而不会对句法理论本身的解释价值产生不良影响。因此，有必要认真探讨如何将非句法解释更多地融入到语言研究中来加深我们对有问题的语言现象的理解，同时加强句法理论。我们将举办一次研讨会，作为这种探索的论坛，主要目标如下：确定明确和令人信服的论点，即必须或不能对给定语言现象的某些或所有方面进行句法分析；确定并评估自然语言现象非句法分析的具体建议；探索候选非句法分析对句法理论的影响；以及探索语言现象的非句法分析是否以及如何可以用一种可以涵盖不同类型语言的“可参数化”理论来表达。研讨会将探讨的主题包括：提取的限制、约束变量回指和动作的“触发”。这些例子都有可能被句子信息输入的一个或多个理论所启发--特别是它们的前置性质和信息表达。