A Theoretical and Empirical Study of the Notion of Phase in Generative Grammar

生成语法中阶段概念的理论与实证研究

• 批准号: 14510543
• 负责人: ISHII Toru
• 金额: $ 1.09万
• 依托单位: MEIJI UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2002 至 2003
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-14510543/
• 关键词: Generative Grammar; Minimalist Program; Phase; Language Faculty; Computational Complexity; Wh-island Constraint; That-trace Effects; Subjacency Condition; 弱交差現象; かき混ぜ規則; 認知科学; 計算の複雑さ; WH移動; Wh島の条件

Within the framework of generative grammar, which explicates the structure and function of the language faculty in the mind/brain of human beings, there have been various attempts to derive the effects of the computational operations proposed in the previous framework from computationally efficient operations. This study focuses on the notion of phase, which is one of the core concepts to reduce the computational complexity within the minimalist program, the most recent framework of generative grammar, and pursues a conceptually and empirically plausible definition of the notion of phase. Specifically, this study investigates the wh-island and that-t effects. It is widely accepted in generative literature that the wh-island effects are subsumed under the Minimal Link Condition. Based on the hitherto unnoticed fact that specific wh-phrases are allowed to be extracted out of indirect questions in English, this study argues that the wh-island effects cannot be subsumed under the Minimal Link Condition, but we still need their traditional subjacency-type account based on the notion of phase. It also argues that the that-t effects can be accounted for by the notion of phase. It is also shown that the phase-theoretic analysis of the that-t effects also account for their crosslinguistic variations.

在生成语法的框架内，它阐明了人类头脑/大脑中语言能力的结构和功能，已经有各种尝试从计算有效的操作中推导出先前框架中提出的计算操作的效果。本研究的重点是阶段的概念，这是一个核心概念，以减少计算的复杂性在最低限度的程序，最新的框架生成语法，并追求一个概念和经验上合理的定义阶段的概念。具体而言，本研究探讨了wh岛和that-t效应。在生成式文献中，wh岛效应被包含在最小链接条件下是被广泛接受的。基于英语间接疑问句中特定的wh-短语可以被提取这一未被注意的事实，本研究认为wh-岛效应不能被纳入最小连接条件，但我们仍然需要基于相位概念的传统相邻类型解释。它还认为，该-t效应可以占的相位的概念。研究还表明，相位理论对that-t效应的分析也解释了它们的跨语言差异。

项目成果

Toru Ishii: "Adjunct Condition and Empty Operator Movement"文芸研究 (明治大学). 91. 21-52 (2003)

石井彻：《附加条件与空算子运动》文学研究（明治大学） 91. 21-52 (2003)。

Toru Ishii: "Weak Crossover and scrambling in English."English Linguistics (The English Linguistic Society of Japan). No.20. 562-572 (2003)

Toru Ishii：“英语中的弱交叉和扰乱。”英语语言学（日本英语语言学会）。

Toru Ishii: "Single Output Syntax and Covert Incorporation."Bungei Kenkyuu (Meiji University). No.92. 73-111 (2004)

Toru Ishii：“单输出语法和隐蔽合并”。Bungei Kenkyuu（明治大学）。

Ishii, Toru: "On the Proper Treatment of Relaxation of Intervention Effects"Workshop On Wh-movement, MIT Press. (発行予定). (2005)

石井彻：“关于干预效应松弛的正确治疗”研讨会，麻省理工学院出版社（2005 年）。

Toru Ishii: "The Phase Impenetrability Condition, the Vacuous Movement Hypothesis, and That-t Effects"Lingua (Elsevier Science). 114.2. 183-215 (2004)

Toru Ishii：“相不可穿透条件、真空运动假说和 That-t 效应”Lingua（爱思唯尔科学）。