Structure and Interpretation of the Left Periphery in Vietnamese

越南语左边缘的结构和解释

• 批准号: 324793876
• 负责人: Dr. Thuan Tran, Ph.D.
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Department für Linguistik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/324793876?language=en
• 关键词: Structure; Interpretation; Left; Periphery; Vietnamese

The project aims at contributing to the theoretical understanding of the left periphery, including e.g. the inventory and interpretation of functional projections in natural language, and their status as universal or language-specific. To the latter end, the project adopts a cross-linguistic perspective, by looking at an isolating language, Vietnamese (Mon-Khmer, Austro-Asiatic), and by comparing the findings for Vietnamese with that of much better studied inflectional languages of the Indo-European type. The exploration also complements the (partially inconclusive) investigations into Chinese, another isolating language but of a different family. As the first comprehensive formal study of left-periphery and syntax-semantics interface in Vietnamese, the project is concerned with two cross linguistic questions: how does syntax incorporate information structural categories? Namely, do information structural categories project in the syntactic structure? Based on the novel empirical data from Vietnamese, the project will specifically compare cartographic (Rizzi 1997 and follow-up work) with non-cartographic approaches (Fanselow 2006, et al.) to syntax. And is the grammatical category tense universal across languages? To be more specific, do isolating languages make available a head tense T filled by covert material? Or are they genuinely tenseless both from a syntactic and a semantic perspective? A third question is language specific and deals with temporal interpretation effects arising from ex-situ wh-questions and other instances of left dislocation: what is the nature of the correlation between temporal construal and left dislocation? Is it semantic or pragmatic? The answer to this question will enrich our knowledge of human language given that an association between word order and temporal resolution of this type is unattested in inflectional Indo-European languages. In sum, the project will offer the first formal syntactic and semantic investigation of the left periphery and the syntax-semantics interface in Vietnamese, and its cross-linguistic implications. Methodologically, the project is empirically driven in that hypothesis testing is primarily based on data collected from fieldwork and on experiment evidence while native speakers intuition and data available in the literature serve as hypothesis building guidelines only.

该项目旨在促进从理论上理解左翼边缘，包括盘点和解释自然语言中的功能投影，以及它们的普遍或特定于语言的地位。对于后者，该项目采用了跨语言的观点，考察了一种孤立的语言--越南语(孟高棉语、奥亚语)，并将越南语的研究结果与研究得更好的印欧语系屈折语言进行了比较。这一探索也是对汉语的调查(部分不确定)的补充，汉语是另一种孤立的语言，但属于不同的家族。作为越南语左边缘和句法-语义界面的第一个全面的正式研究，该项目关注两个跨语言问题：句法如何纳入信息结构范畴？也就是说，信息结构范畴在句法结构中有投射吗？基于来自越南的新的经验数据，该项目将具体比较制图方法(Rizzi 1997及后续工作)和非制图方法(Fanselow 2006等人)。到句法。语法范畴时态在所有语言中都是通用的吗？更具体地说，孤立的语言是否提供了由隐蔽材料填充的中心时态T？或者从句法和语义的角度来看，它们都是真正不紧张的吗？第三个问题是特定于语言的，涉及异地wh疑问句和其他左错位实例产生的时间解释效应：时间错位和左错位之间的相关性是什么？它是语义的还是语用的？这个问题的答案将丰富我们对人类语言的知识，因为这种语序和时间分辨率之间的联系在屈折的印欧语言中是未经证实的。总而言之，该项目将首次对越南语的左边缘和句法-语义界面及其跨语言含义进行正式的句法和语义调查。在方法上，该项目是经验驱动的，因为假设检验主要基于从实地调查和实验证据收集的数据，而母语人士的直觉和文献中提供的数据仅作为假设构建的指导方针。