A Research into the Unification of the Grammatical Operations in Phonology and Semantics

音系学和语义学的语法操作能否统一，取决于我们如何识别这两个理论研究领域之间的结构同源性。这两种语言结构的轴心分别位于语言的时间和空间属性上。我试图阐明以下几点：核心语音过程，如同化、辅音增音和元音和谐，可能被形式化为语音结构的结构合并，时间成分被适当地假定为位于两个几何层次之间，即终端语音特征和非终端特征。这种方法的一个必然结果是重新形式化这种元音系规则，如lenition和fortition，这两个都带来了结构合并与结构擦除。我在这里阐述的音系学最低限度方法的整个理论框架，关键是指全面解释的原则，其功能是扫描音系学的输出。时间元素的概念来自Jackendoff的概念语义学，它支持两个调查领域之间的同源性，即，本研究发现，在概念（语义）结构的形成过程中，存在着一种结构上的合并。Jackendoff的概念结构形成规则可以很容易地转化为合并的迭代过程。在本研究中，我着重研究了英语小句间结构的合并过程，尤其是叙述性When从句的合并过程。我已经明确指出，在NWC中发现的小句联系可以被正式化为一种合并，这种合并通过使用语言模板来促进。值得注意的是，模板的概念来自基帕尔斯基的音节形成的概念。在这个形成过程的中心是位于合并的过程。

The possibility of the unification of the grammatical operations in phonology and semantics depends on the degree how we identify the structural homologies between the two theoretical fields of inquiry. The axes of the two types of linguistic structures are situated on temporal and spatial attributes of language. I have tried to make clear the points that follow.The possibility has emerged that core phonological processes such as assimilation, consonantal epenthesis and vowel harmony are formalized as structural merger of phonological structures and that the temporal elements are appropriately assumed to reside between the two geometric levels, terminal phonological features and non-terminal features. A corollary of this approach is to re-formalize such meta-phonological rules as lenition and fortition, both of which brought about by structural merger in tandem with structural erasure. The whole theoretical framework of the minimalist approach to phonology that I here formulated crucially refers to the principle of Full Interpretation that functions to scan the outputs from phonology. The notion of temporal elements comes from Jackendoff's Conceptual Semantics, which supports the idea of homology between the two fields of inquiry, i.e., phonology and semantics.The present research has identified a structural merger in the process of formation of conceptual (semantic) structures. Jackendoff's rules of conceptual structure formation can easily be translated into iterated processes of merger. In this research I have been dwelled onto the merging processes in interclausal structures, especially those in Narrative When Clauses (NWCs) in English. I have made it explicit that the clausal linkage found in NWCs can be formalized as a merger that is facilitated by access to linguistic templates. It is crucial to note that the notion of template comes from Kiparsky's notion of syllable formation. In the center of this formation processes is situated the process of merger.