Minimalism and Logical Form

极简主义和逻辑形式

• 批准号: 9601559
• 负责人: Norbert Hornstein
• 金额: $ 11.9万
• 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: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-08-01 至 2000-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9601559&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Minimalism; Logical; Form

This is a project of research in syntactic theory, within the general framework known as the "Minimalist Program" (MP). The aim of the MP is to simplify radically the assumptions and the mechanisms of the "Government-and-Binding" (GB) theoretical framework which was the lineal antecedent of MP, while continuing to account for the empirical data the GB handles successfully. In this particular project, the investigators will focus on developing a satisfactory theoretical account of the properties of quantified expressions, like "every child" or "many books". Interpretations of sentences containing two or more such expressions show that they interact in interesting ways, especially with respect to their "scope", which may be wide or narrow. The topic to be investigated here will be whether structural patterns which need to be posited for other purposes, such as assignment of case categories to noun phrases, can be exploited to give the right results in interpreting quantified expressions, without the need of the somewhat elaborate machinery for their interpretation which has evolved in the GB framework.

这是一个研究句法理论的项目，在被称为“最简方案”（MP）的一般框架内。 MP的目的是从根本上简化“政府与约束”（GB）理论框架的假设和机制，这是MP的直系前身，同时继续解释GB成功处理的经验数据。 在这个特殊的项目中，研究人员将专注于开发一个令人满意的量化表达式的属性的理论帐户，如“每个孩子”或“许多书籍”。 对包含两个或两个以上此类表达的句子的解释表明，它们以有趣的方式相互作用，特别是在它们的“范围”方面，这可能是广泛的或狭窄的。 这里要研究的主题是，是否可以利用需要为其他目的而设定的结构模式，例如将格范畴分配给名词短语，以在解释量化表达时给出正确的结果，而不需要在GB框架中演变的某种复杂的解释机制。