Dissertation: Two Types of Unaccusatives: Evidence from Northern Italian Dialects

论文：两种非宾格：来自意大利北部方言的证据

• 批准号: 9630139
• 负责人: Peter Cole
• 金额: $ 0.59万
• 依托单位: University of Delaware
• 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: 1996-09-01 至 1998-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9630139&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Two; Types; Unaccusatives; Evidence

This grant funds dissertation research on the syntax of certain dialects spoken in Northern Italy. By field work in Italy, the student will collect data on several different verb types. The main dialect of interest is Borgomanerese, spoken in the province of Piedmont. In this dialect certain intransitive verbs which share similar meanings have distinct syntactic properties which distinguish them from all other verbs. These properties have gone previously unnoticed because Borgomanerese is a very little studied dialect. The special properties that this distinct class of verbs shares are of interest to linguistics because they constitute evidence in favor of the hypothesis, motivated by facts from other languages, which claims that certain aspects of verb meaning are relevant to syntactic structure.

这笔拨款用于对意大利北部某些方言的句法进行论文研究。通过在意大利的实地考察，学生将收集关于几种不同动词类型的数据。人们感兴趣的主要方言是博尔戈曼内尔语，在皮埃蒙特省使用。在该方言中，某些词义相近的不及物动词具有明显的句法特征，有别于所有其他动词。这些特性以前没有被注意到，因为Borgomanerese是一种很少被研究的方言。这类独特的动词所具有的特殊性质引起了语言学的兴趣，因为它们构成了支持这一假说的证据，这一假说的动机来自其他语言的事实，该假说声称动词意义的某些方面与句法结构有关。