A Minimalist View of Components in Generative Grammar

<Jun Abe>在这个项目中，Jun Abe主要致力于以下两个问题：(i)在日语这样一种允许自由语序的语言中，这种属性被标准地捕捉到被称为乱序的规则中，那么这种特殊的运动规则如何被纳入到极简主义计划中？;（二）如何在极简主义纲领下捕捉日语中所观察到的代词下降现象？对于问题(i)，这个项目揭示了，虽然在标准上假定乱序在应用中是自由的，但它受制于一种经济条件，即当后一种操作在词序上产生与乱序相同的效果时，它会让位给一种成熟的操作符运动。详见本项目报告中他的文章《一种关于抢地的经济条件》。对于问题（ii），我们发现日语中的代词下降现象在句法性质上与意大利语和西班牙语等屈折语言中的代词下降现象有很大的不同。有关详细信息，请参阅我们项目报告中题为“省略号中的许可条件”的文章。<国屋成川>按照他最初的学习计划，在上述期间，成川试图在极简程序的基础上，将句法理论的几个方面引入音韵学理论。特别地，我们回顾了以下两点：(1)语音启动词的类型和(2)段内表征。关于(1)，Nasukawa使用要素理论的框架建立了无冗余且反映隐含共相的片段内表征。对于(2)，他提出了一个模型，在该模型中衍生性约束约束控制了分段内结构内的依赖关系。这些建议已经在日本国内和海外举行的几次不同的会议上提出。【Phillip Backley>】Backley与国谷成川（Kuniya Nasukawa）在《许可/政府音韵学》（Licensing/Government Phonology）框架内建立了一个无冗余的韵律表示模型。特别是，Backley澄清了韵律结构与上述段内结构模型之间的一些相关性。结果报告已在若干国际会议上发表。少

<Jun Abe>In this project, Jun Abe has been working mainly on the following two questions : (i) In such a language as Japanese that allows free word-order, this property is standardly captured by the rule called scrambling, and then how is this peculiar movement rule to be subsumed under the Minimalist Program? ; (ii) How is the phenomenon of pronoun-drop observed in Japanese to be captured under the Minimalist Program? As for the question (i), it is revealed by this project that though scrambling is standardly assumed to be free in its application, it is subject to a sort of economy condition to the effect that it gives way to a well-established operator movement when the latter operation gives rise to the same effect in word order as scrambling. For details, see his articled entitled "An Economy Condition on Scrambling" in the report of our project. As for the question (ii), it turned out that the pronoun-drop phenomenon observed in Japanese is quite different in its syntactic nature … More from that observed in such inflectional languages as Italian and Spanish. For details, see his articled entitled "Licensing Conditions in Ellipsis " in the report of our project.<Kuniya Nasukawa>Following his original study plan, during the aforementioned period Nasukawa attempted to introduce into phonological theory several aspects of syntactic theory based on the minimalist program. In particular, the following two points have been reviewed : (1) types of phonological primes and (2) intrasegmental representations. Regarding (1), Nasukawa has used the framework of Element Theory to establish intrasegmental representations which are redundant-free and which reflect implicational universals. With respect to (2), he has proposed a model in which derivationally restrictive constraints control the dependency relations holding within intrasegmental structures. These proposals have been presented at several different conferences held within Japan and also overseas.<Phillip Backley>With Kuniya Nasukawa, Backley has established a redundancy-free model of prosodic representations within the framework of Licensing/Government Phonology. In particular, Backley has clarified some correlations between prosodic structures and the aforementioned model of intrasegmental structure. The resulting reports have been delivered at several international conferences. Less