A Minimalist View of Components in Generative Grammar

<Jun Abe>在这个项目中，安部淳主要研究了以下两个问题：（1）在日语这样一种允许自由词序的语言中，这种属性被称为混乱的规则所捕获，那么这种特殊的运动规则如何被归入最简方案？（二）在最简方案下，日语中观察到的代词脱落现象是如何被捕捉的？至于问题（i），本研究揭示了，尽管打乱在其应用中被假定为是自由的，但它受制于一种经济条件，即当一个成熟的操作者运动在词序上产生与打乱相同的效果时，它让位于后者。有关详细信息，请参阅我们项目报告中他题为“一种经济条件下的争夺”的文章。关于问题（ii），我们发现日语中的代词脱落现象在句法性质上有很大的不同 ...更多信息 与意大利语和西班牙语等屈折语言中的不同。有关详细信息，请参阅我们项目报告中题为“省略中的许可条件”的文章。<Kuniya Nasukawa>根据他最初的研究计划，在上述期间，那须川试图将基于最低纲领的句法理论的几个方面引入音系学理论。特别是以下两点：（1）语音启动的类型和（2）段内表征。关于（1），那须川用元素理论的框架建立了无冗余的、反映蕴涵共性的段内表征。关于（2），他提出了一个模型，在这个模型中，派生限制性约束控制了在段内结构中保持的依存关系。这些建议已在日本国内和海外举行的几次不同会议上提出。<Phillip Backley>Backley与Kuniya Nasukawa在Licensing/Government Phonology框架内建立了一个无冗余的韵律表征模型。特别是，Backley阐明了韵律结构和上述的段内结构模型之间的一些相关性。由此产生的报告已在若干国际会议上提交。少

<Jun Abe>In this project, Jun Abe has been working mainly on the following two questions : (i) In such a language as Japanese that allows free word-order, this property is standardly captured by the rule called scrambling, and then how is this peculiar movement rule to be subsumed under the Minimalist Program? ; (ii) How is the phenomenon of pronoun-drop observed in Japanese to be captured under the Minimalist Program? As for the question (i), it is revealed by this project that though scrambling is standardly assumed to be free in its application, it is subject to a sort of economy condition to the effect that it gives way to a well-established operator movement when the latter operation gives rise to the same effect in word order as scrambling. For details, see his articled entitled "An Economy Condition on Scrambling" in the report of our project. As for the question (ii), it turned out that the pronoun-drop phenomenon observed in Japanese is quite different in its syntactic nature … More from that observed in such inflectional languages as Italian and Spanish. For details, see his articled entitled "Licensing Conditions in Ellipsis " in the report of our project.<Kuniya Nasukawa>Following his original study plan, during the aforementioned period Nasukawa attempted to introduce into phonological theory several aspects of syntactic theory based on the minimalist program. In particular, the following two points have been reviewed : (1) types of phonological primes and (2) intrasegmental representations. Regarding (1), Nasukawa has used the framework of Element Theory to establish intrasegmental representations which are redundant-free and which reflect implicational universals. With respect to (2), he has proposed a model in which derivationally restrictive constraints control the dependency relations holding within intrasegmental structures. These proposals have been presented at several different conferences held within Japan and also overseas.<Phillip Backley>With Kuniya Nasukawa, Backley has established a redundancy-free model of prosodic representations within the framework of Licensing/Government Phonology. In particular, Backley has clarified some correlations between prosodic structures and the aforementioned model of intrasegmental structure. The resulting reports have been delivered at several international conferences. Less