Long-distance Dependencies in French: Comparative Analyses (HPSG and the Minimalist Program)

本项目使用两个语法框架（HPSG和Minimalist Program）来研究长距离依存关系，特别是疑问句和关系句中的长距离依存关系。这将第一次产生广泛的经验和理论覆盖面，并在法语中最大限度地完整描述长距离依赖关系，这是一个迄今为止只被零星描述的领域。该项目的长远目标是回答这样一个问题：句法描述的要素必须有多复杂、多数量和具体结构，才能解释大量数据样本中所包含的现象，这些数据显示了法语的长距离依赖性。所选框架呈现出两种极端的可能解释。最简方案要求通过原子单元（具有中心语状态的词汇条目）进行建模，这些单元与非常局部范围的非常普遍的句法原则相互作用。类似于构造语法所声称的，HPSG扩展了术语“词典”，并且可以在必要时制定复杂的描述单元，其中已经定义了更大的星座和约束范围。在构式语法的解释中，这可以导致构式族的形成，如Sag（2010）所要求的。在项目供资期结束时，计划提供两种分析的详细比较。

The project explores long-distance dependencies, especially in interrogative and relative constructions, using two grammatical frameworks (HPSG and the Minimalist Program).In a first step, the data situation will be improved through corpus analyses and inquiries with native speakers. This will yield, for the first time, a broad empirical and theoretical coverage and a maximally complete description of long-distance dependencies in French, an area that has been only fragmentarily described up to now. The overreaching objective of the project is to answer the question of how complex, numerous and construction-specific the elements of syntactic description must be in order to explain the phenomena contained in a broad sample of data that show long-distance-dependencies in French. The selected frameworks present two extreme poles of possible interpretations. The Minimalist Program requires modeling by means of atomic units (lexical entries with head status), which interact with very general syntactic principles of a very local range. Similarly to what is claimed by construction grammar, HPSG has expanded the term "lexicon" and can formulate, if necessary, complex description units in which larger constellations and the range of constraints are already defined. In an interpretation within construction grammar, this can lead to the formulation of a construction family, as required in Sag (2010). At the end of the project funding period, a detailed comparison of the two analyses is planned to be available.