英语提升和控制形容词结构的最简句法研究  

A Minimalist Analysis of Raising Adjectives and Control Adjectives in English

作　　者：马志刚[1] 

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

出　　处：《浙江外国语学院学报》2015年第2期32-39,47,共9页Journal of Zhejiang International Studies University

基　　金：教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地重大项目(12JJD740010);教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地重大项目(14JJD740015)

摘　　要：谓词性形容词也可分提升类和控制类,二者的用法表现和生成机制并不相同,而且二者与其他语义相近的形容词也有所不同。这些不同之处主要体现在不定式句中的时态变化、被动化、虚指词的使用、for-to不定式句的允准等方面。鉴于管约论并未对提升和控制形容词结构中名词成分的格位指派提出一致的分析方案,因此有必要在最简句法理论框架下尝试提出统一的格位指派机制。文章首先归纳出两类形容词结构用法方面的异同,然后基于探针-目标一致关系理论为二者的生成机制提出符合特征传递机制的分析方案。Predicative adjectives fall into two categories： raising and control; their usages and generative mechanisms differ from each other and from other adjectives with similar semantics. These differences lie mainly in tense variation in the infinitival clauses,passivisation,（ non-） use of expletives,licensing of for-to infinitival clauses,etc. Considering that Government and Binding Theory fails to propose a unified case-assigning analysis for the NPs in the two types of adjectives,the present article finds it necessary to attempt to formulate a unified mechanism under the latest minimalist guidance. This article first summarizes usages of the two types of adjectives and then proposes a Probe-goal based analysis,which is in full accordance with the feature inheritance mechanism.

关 键 词：最简方案 提升和控制 探针-目标 一致关系 格位指派 特征传递 

分 类 号：H314.3[语言文字—英语]