Grammaticalisation under Control: towards a functional analysis of same-subject identity-sharing
Grammaticalisation under Control: towards a functional analysis of same-subject identity-sharing
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控制下的语法化：对同一主体身份共享的功能分析
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10.1515/flin.2008.401
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2008
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D. Ziegeler
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D. Ziegeler
30多年来，不定式和其他非有限分句中主语缺失或被理解的问题一直是句法研究的一个巨大课题。它也日益成为语义领域讨论的焦点，人们倾向于通过动词在其范围内的词汇性质来确定控制关系。本研究从功能主义和语法化的角度探讨了这一主题，研究了新加坡口语英语（CSE）中主语控制关系缺失的一些例子。在这样的调查中，人们质疑这些例子对语法化解释下的主语控制的定义有什么含义，以及补语中主语控制与主语选择的关系。假设主语控制的存在意味着被控制的主语必须由补语动词选择，补语动词的主语选择属性由主动词的语法化水平决定。此外，CSE中主题突出的句子结构，而不是主语突出的句子结构的存在，是接触影响的基础，最有可能导致该方言的使用者的动词和主语之间的语义关系明显减少。
The notion of a missing or understood subject of infinitive and other non-finite clauses has been the topic of a vast enterprise of syntactic research for more than thirty years. It has also increasingly become the focus for discussion in semantic domains, with the tendency to determine control relations by the lexical nature of the verbs within their scope. The present study addresses the topic from a functionalist, grammaticalisation perspective, examining some examples from Colloquial Singapore English (CSE) in which subject Control relations appear to be absent. Within such enquiry, it is questioned what implications such examples may have for definitions of subject Control under a grammaticalisation account, and the relation of subject Control to subject selection in the complement. It is hypothesised that the presence of subject Control implies that the controlled subject must be selected by the complement verb and that the subject selection properties of the complement verb are determined by the level of grammaticalisation of the main verb. Furthermore, the presence of topic-prominent, rather than subject-prominent sentence structure in CSE underlies the contact influence most likely to contribute to the apparently reduced semantic relations holding between the verb and subject for speakers of that dialect.