权益分类	功能权益	普通用户	{{item.name}}会员
{{category.name}}	{{benefitItem.name}}

The Syntax and Semantics of Non-Eventive Sentences : English Middles and Other Constructions

非事件句的句法和语义:英语中间词和其他结构

基本信息

批准号：
10610477
负责人：
KAWASAKI(ISHII) Noriko
金额：
$ 0.7万
依托单位：
Tokyo Woman's Christian University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
1998
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
1998 至 1999
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-10610477/
关键词：
Middle Construction Syntactic Movement Thematic Positions Thematic Roles Predication PRO Definiteness Indefiniteness English ゼロ形態素

项目摘要

The research focused on the middle construction in English and sentences with the missing subject of infinitives and gerunds (PRO) or with the pronoun one. The middle construction is not interpreted as eventive, but is construed to involve genericity. Like indefinite noun phrases, PRO and one can be bound by an adverb of quantification or an implicit generic operator. Unlike indefinites, however, they do not allow existential interpretation. That is, they are possible in generic contexts but they do not allow episodic/eventive interpretation.First, I proposed that the middle construction in English contains a zero-form morpheme which heads an adjunct to the verb and has the meaning of "due to." The zero-form morpheme is the source of the meaning typical of the construction that the derived subject is responsible for the genericity described by the sentence, and also prevents the realization of the demoted agent as well as other internal arguments.The derived subject of the middle const … More ruction is assigned the semantic role of the bearer of a property in the derived position. The assignment is based on the predication relation between the subject and the predicate. On the other hand, the subject of such sentences as "John washed" "John shaved" is not moved from the object position to the subject position. I proposed that movement into a position with a semantic role is possible if the role assigned there is based on predication, but not possible if it is one of the event-related roles such as agent and theme, which are based on the thematic relations of the verb. I argued that this generalization points to the hypothesis that the event-related thematic roles are not syntactic features that trigger syntactic movement.Based on the above-mentioned observations on PRO and one, I examined the relationship between definiteness/indefiniteness and their syntactic realizations from the Minimalist point of view. I argued that indefiniteness, as well as definiteness, must be explicitly marked on noun phrases, and existential interpretation is possible only for noun phrases explicitly marked as indefinite. Less

研究主要集中在英语的中间结构和带有不定式和动名词(PRO)主语缺失的句子或带有代词one的句子。中间结构不被解释为平均结构，但被解释为包含概括性。和不定名词短语一样，PRO和One可以由数量副词或隐含的类属运算符连接。然而，与不确定者不同的是，它们不允许存在主义解释。也就是说，它们在一般语境中是可能的，但它们不允许情景/均匀解释。首先，我建议英语中动句中含有一个零式语素，它领导动词的附加语，具有由于的意思。零式语素是句式典型意义的来源，即派生主语对句子所描述的概括性负责，同时也阻碍降级施事和其他内部论元的实现。中常…的派生主语更多的规则被指定为派生位置中的财产的持有者的语义角色。赋值是基于主语和谓词之间的谓词关系。另一方面，“约翰洗涤”、“约翰剃须”等句子的主语并没有从宾语位置移到主语位置。我提出，如果分配给某个位置的角色是基于谓词的，那么进入一个具有语义角色的位置是可能的，但如果它是基于动词的主题关系的事件相关角色之一，如施事和主位，则不可能。基于上述对PRO和ONE的观察，笔者从最低限度的角度考察了确定性和不确定性与句法实现之间的关系。我认为，不确定性和确定性一样，必须明确地标记在名词短语上，而存在主义解释只有对明确标记为不确定的名词短语才是可能的。较少