Licensing of Constructions by Analogy and Its Mechanisms

这项研究旨在分析那些被认为不符合语法或不规范但实际上(至少被一些人)使用的类比结构。这样的结构包括Just for X并不意味着Y结构(例如，仅仅因为他犯了一个愚蠢的错误并不意味着你将在城市里熄灯)。英语中的NP-副词从句结构(即名词短语被副词从句修饰，例如他在读到财富之前销毁了幸运饼干)。具体而言，本研究明确指出：(1)前一种构式是基于其与其他独立存在的语法构式的相似性而被类推许可的；(2)后一种构式是通过强制许可的。

This study aims to analyze in terms of analogy constructionsthat are considered ungrammatical or non-canonical but are actually used (at least bysome people). Such constructions include the Just because of X doesn’t mean Y construction (e.g. Just because of his dumb mistake doesn’t mean you’re going to have lights out in the city.) and the NP-Adverb Clause construction (i.e. the modification of a noun phrase by an adverb clause, e.g. his destruction of the fortune cookie before he read the fortune) in English. In particular, this study made clear (i) that the former construction is licensed by analogies based on its similarities to other grammaticalconstructions existing independently, and (ii) that the latter construction is licensed by coercion.