English Grammar in the Framework of Generative Grammar

本研究的目的是在生成语法理论框架下，根据大量的事实和分析，为高中生构建一个英语语法。生成性的解释和分析方法不仅本身很有趣，而且在英语教学中也很有用。然而，一般认为生成性解释过于抽象，不适合英语教学。这与事实相反：生成语法的研究成果对英语教学有很大的帮助，因为对句子结构的生成解释极大地帮助学生准确而深入地理解句子结构。然而，几乎没有人尝试过使用生成语法分析句子结构。在本研究中，我的目的是将生成语法的成果应用于实际，以改善日本的英语教育。为了达到这个目标，最好为高中生写一本语法书，我已经完成了一本语法书，名为《基于生成语法的英语语法》。“在这本书中，我在语法学习中做出了很多尝试来改进英语的语法解释：我特别关注有限/非有限区分以及动词的句法属性与其含义之间的相关性等问题。我还提出了关系从句和比较结构的生成解释。这些建议应该为学生提供更清晰的解释，为什么关系从句必须在自己的从句中有一个空白，为什么比较结构有这样那样的属性。

The purpose of this research is to consturct an English grammar for high school students in the framework of generative grammar, based on the huge amount of facts and analyses that have been found in this framework since its advent. The generative ways of accounting for and analyzing facts are not only very interesting in themselves but also very useful in English education. However, it has been generally considered that generative accounts are so abstract that they cannot be appropriate for teaching English. This is contrary to fact: The findings in generative grammar are very helpful in English education in that the generative accounts of sentence constructions greatly help students get accurate and deep understanding of sentence constructions. However, almost nobody has ever attempted to make use of generative analyses of sentence construction.In this research I aimed to put to practical use the achievements of generative grammar to improve English education in Japan. In order to achieve this goal it is best to write a grammar book for high school students, and I have completed a grammar book entitled "An English Grammar based on Generative Grammar." In this book I have made many attempts to improve grammatical accounts of English in learning grammars: I have paid special attention to such problems as the finite/nonfinite distinction and the correlation between syntactic properties of verbs and their meanings. I have also proposed the generative account for relative clause constructions and comparative constructions. These proposals should provide students with much more clarified accounts of why relative clauses must have a gap in their own clauses and why comparative constructions have such and such properties.