Syntactic Considerations of Predicate Meanings and Event Types: Towards Constructing Functional Category Syntax

本研究项目主要关注事件的时态和方面解释如何在句法上被捕获，这些解释应该与谓词的词汇特性相关。所涉及的现象包括性质归属句、“te-iru”的双重解释、进行状态和结果状态、完成状态“ta”和结果状态“te-iru”的可互换性，这些都与代理主体和/或时态的一般解释的存在或不存在有关，以及谓词的静态性。在解释这些特殊现象时，发生在vP和TP之间的功能范畴AspP以及与此范畴相关的句法操作起着至关重要的作用，通过这种方式，同一个vP可以产生不止一种句子类型。

This research project is mainly concerned with how the tense and aspectual interpretations of events, which are supposed to be relevant to lexical properties of predicates, can be syntactically captured. The phenomena taken up include the sentences of property ascription, dual interpretations of 'te-iru', progressive state and result state, and the interchangeability of perfective 'ta' and result state 'te-iru', which are to do with the presence or absence of an agent subject and/or of the generic interpretation on tense, and the stativity of a predicate. In explaining these peculiar phenomena, AspP, a functional category that takes place between vP and TP, and syntactic operations relevant to this category play a crucial role, by way of which more than one sentence type is given rise to from the same vP.