Workshop on Semantic Roles in Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition, Lawrence, Kansas, Spring 1993

摘要每一种句法理论都必须解释人类语言如何将语义角色与句法关系相结合。尽管在格形态、构型和动词论元的可选表达方面存在显著的跨语言差异，但人类语言始终将与动作Cut、Gave和See相关联的施事角色映射到相同的句法关系中。直到最近，语言学家还只是以松散定义的语义角色的形式发行了期票，以解释跨语言对齐的规则以及许多其他句法现象。在语言学家在各种理论框架内开始研究语义角色如何反映事件的概念结构或从事件的概念结构中派生出语义角色之前，人们早就认识到这样的描述仍然是令人期待的。目前对语言习得的研究也关注语义/句法对语言习得的重要性。这次会议将使这些研究人员能够批判性地审视语义角色的性质及其在句法理论和语言习得中的作用。

ABSTRACT Every syntactic theory must explain the way human languges align semantic roles with syntactic relations. Human languages consistently map the 'agent' roles associated with the actions 'cut', 'give' and 'see' into the same syntactic relations, despite significant cross-linguistic differences in case morphology, configurationality and the optional expression of verb arguments. Until recently linguists have only issued promissory notes in the form of loosely defined semantic roles to account for cross-linguistic regularities in alignment as well as a host of other syntactic phenomena. It has long been recognized that such accounts remain promissory until linguists, working within various theoritical frameworks, have begun to investigate the way in which semantic roles reflect or derive from the conceptual structure of events. Current research on language acquisition also focuses on the significance of semantic/syntactic alignment for the acquisition of language. This conference will enable these researchers to critically examine the nature of semantic roles and their role in syntactic theory and language acquistion.