Aspects of Sentence Structure Extension by Functional Categories and Adjuncts from the Perspective of the Syntax-Semantics Interface

本研究的目的是从句法-语义界面的角度探讨功能范畴和谓词如何参与由谓词及其论元组成的核心命题句法对象向更大句法对象发展的过程。研究的主要发现有以下三点。(1)功能范畴根据其中心语的内在句法和/或语义属性扩展句子结构，语义解释与句法推导并行进行，如Kaneko（2006）和Kaneko（2007 a）特别参考各种子句的时间解释所证明的那样。(2)Kaneko（2008 a）表明，在合并方面，最大和中间投影可以被邻接，并且这两种类型的邻接可以被分析为针对“最大”投影的合并的实例，因为在Chomsky（1995）的裸短语结构理论下，投影被关系地和派生地定义，并且它们总是作为合并操作的目标的“最大”。(3)Kaneko（2006年）和Kaneko（2008年b）证明，地方和配置因素参与了连接的过程，他们修改此外，Kaneko（2007 b）指出了当前教育语法在处理句法扩展时存在的一些问题，这些句法扩展是由功能类别许可的嵌入和省略现象，本文认为，教育语法需要引入选民的概念、X理论的基本观点、语法关系与范畴的区分等。

The purpose of this research project is to investigate how functional categories and adjuncts participate in the processes in which nuclear propositional syntactic objects consisting of predicates and their arguments develop into larger syntactic objects, from the perspective of the syntax-semantics interface. The main findings of the research are the following three points. (1) Functional categories extend sentence structures in accordance with the inherent syntactic and/or semantic properties of their heads, and semantic interpretation is carried out in parallel with syntactic derivation, as demonstrated in Kaneko (2006) and Kaneko (2007a) with special reference to temporal interpretation of a variety of clauses. (2) Kaneko (2008a) shows that adjuncts can be adjoined to maximal and intermediate projections in terms of Merge, and both types of adjunction can be analyzed as instances of Merge targeting "maximal" projections, because under the theory of Bare Phrase Structure of Chomsky (1995), projections are defined relationally and derivationally and they are always "maximal" as targets of the operation Merge. (3) Kaneko (2006) and Kaneko (2008b) demonstrate that locality and configuration factors are involved in the process of connecting adjuncts and what they modify (especially, functional heads).Furthermore, Kaneko (2007b) points out a number of problems with current educational grammar in the treatment of syntactic expansion by embedding and ellipsis phenomena licensed by functional categories, and argues that we need introduce to educational grammar the concept of constituency, the basic insights of the X'-Theory, the distinction between grammatical relations and categories, and so on.