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

SBR-9507805 CULICOVER 摘要 在过去的35年里，生成语法学家通过用句法术语描述各种各样的语言现象，在理解人类语言方面取得了很大的进展。这项研究的重点是发展理论，阐明说话者的能力，它导致了许多有趣的和成功的预测跨语言的相似性和差异。然而，随着这一要求的发展，越来越多的语言内和跨语言的数据，越来越清楚的是，某些被广泛接受的句法解释的现象，（例如，对疑问句构成或代词分布的限制）如果不对句法理论本身的解释价值产生不良影响，就很可能无法完全用句法术语进行分析。 因此，有必要认真探讨的问题是，如何更多地将非句法解释纳入语言学研究可以加深我们对有问题的语言现象的理解，同时，加强句法理论。我们将举办一次讲习班，作为进行这种探索的论坛，其总体目标如下： 明确和令人信服的论点， 一个特定语言现象的所有方面都必须或不能 进行句法分析; 确定和评价具体建议， 自然语言现象的非句法分析; 探索候选非句法的含义 句法理论分析; 探索是否以及如何非句法分析 语言现象可以用 “参数化”理论，可以涵盖类型学 多种语言。 研讨会将探讨的主题包括：对提取的限制，约束变量回指，以及移动的“触发”。这些例子都有可能被句子的信息输入理论所阐明，特别是它们的预设属性和信息表达。

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.