A Large-Scale-Corpus Based Generative Theoretical Study on Complement Structures of Adverbs and Their Learnability

人们常说，英语中的副词不带补语，这是副词与形容词的重要区别。然而，很少有研究人员指出，那些具有特定含义的副词需要补语。本项目试图通过对大规模语料库的搜索，探索补语副词的内部结构，明确补语副词在句子中出现的位置，即补语副词的外部结构。对儿童如何习得某些副词的补语结构进行了理论探索。

It is often said that adverbs do not take complements in English, a property which crucially distinguishes them from adjectives. Few researchers, however, point out that those adverbs that have certain meanings take complements. This project made an attempt to explore internal structures of adverbs taking complements and to make it clear in which positions adverbs taking complements occur in sentences, i. e., external structures of adverbs taking complements, based on the search for large scale corpora. It also made a theoretical attempt to explore how children acquire complement structures of certain adverbs.