语段及语段的句法推导——Chomsky近期思想述解  

Phases and their syntactic derivation:Recent development in Chomskyan syntactic theory

作　　者：何晓炜[1] 

机构地区：[1]广州市广东外语外贸大学外国语言学及应用语言学研究中心,510420

出　　处：《外语教学与研究》2007年第5期345-351,共7页Foreign Language Teaching and Research

基　　金：教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地重大研究项目(05JJD740179)资助

摘　　要：Chomsky近期强调要从生物语言学角度对内在性语言进行研究,强调界面条件及运算效率。语段概念的提出就是这种研究理念的体现,并在最简方案新框架内的句法推导中占有核心地位。所有的句法操作都由语段中心语决定,都必须在语段水平上进行。语段及语段中心语在句法推导中的作用得到了进一步加强。本文对Chomsky近期(2005a,2005b,2006)有关语段的论述进行综述,讨论语段概念提出的理论背景、定义、语段推导的原则和条件,以及语段推导理论对句法研究的影响。This paper reviews phase-based theory of syntax,introduced by Chomsky in recent years.Especially we focus on proposals concerning phases put forward by Chomsky in 2005a,2005b,2006.Within the biolinguistic framework,interface conditions and computational efficiency are of great importance to the study of language.Chomsky claims that the computational component of the Language Faculty can only hold limited amounts of syntactic structure in its working memory at any one time,and that clause structure is built up in phases(with phases including CP and transitive vP).In order to ensure a reduction of computational burden,the derivation of expressions proceeds by phase,so that syntactic structures are built up one phase at a time.Thus phase-based theory plays an important role in syntactic derivation.In this paper we present the theory of derivational phases and discuss the far-reaching theoretical consequences of phase-based theory on syntactic study.

关 键 词：最简方案 语段 生成语法 生物语言学 

分 类 号：H0[语言文字—语言学]