English Grammar in the Framework of Generative Grammar

本研究的目的是在生成语法的框架下，基于大量的事实和分析，构建一个高中生的英语语法。对事实进行核算和分析的生成方法不仅本身很有趣，而且在英语教育中也很有用。然而，人们普遍认为生成账户过于抽象，不适合英语教学。这与事实相反：生成语法的发现对英语教育非常有帮助，因为句子结构的生成描述极大地帮助学生准确而深刻地理解句子结构。然而，几乎没有人尝试使用生成式分析来分析句子结构。在本研究中，我的目的是实际运用生成语法的成果来改善日本的英语教育。为了达到这个目标，最好是为高中生写一本语法书，我已经完成了一本名为《基于生成语法的英语语法》的语法书。在这本书中，我在学习语法时做了许多改进英语语法的尝试：我特别注意了有限/非有限的区别以及动词的句法性质和它们的意义之间的关系等问题。我还提出了关系从句结构和比较结构的生成解释。这些建议应该为学生提供更明确的解释，为什么关系从句在他们自己的从句中必须有一个空白，为什么比较结构具有这样或那样的属性。

The purpose of this research is to consturct an English grammar for high school students in the framework of generative grammar, based on the huge amount of facts and analyses that have been found in this framework since its advent. The generative ways of accounting for and analyzing facts are not only very interesting in themselves but also very useful in English education. However, it has been generally considered that generative accounts are so abstract that they cannot be appropriate for teaching English. This is contrary to fact: The findings in generative grammar are very helpful in English education in that the generative accounts of sentence constructions greatly help students get accurate and deep understanding of sentence constructions. However, almost nobody has ever attempted to make use of generative analyses of sentence construction.In this research I aimed to put to practical use the achievements of generative grammar to improve English education in Japan. In order to achieve this goal it is best to write a grammar book for high school students, and I have completed a grammar book entitled "An English Grammar based on Generative Grammar." In this book I have made many attempts to improve grammatical accounts of English in learning grammars: I have paid special attention to such problems as the finite/nonfinite distinction and the correlation between syntactic properties of verbs and their meanings. I have also proposed the generative account for relative clause constructions and comparative constructions. These proposals should provide students with much more clarified accounts of why relative clauses must have a gap in their own clauses and why comparative constructions have such and such properties.