英语一般疑问句的生成机制

The Generative Mechanism of English General Interrogative Sentence

移位是句法操作的重要手段之一,移位的主要目的是使句子中语类的语法特征得到核查。在生成英语一般疑问句的过程中,句中的C位包含一个抽象的强语素Q,它吸引助动词或者情态助动词移动至C位,从而核查其自身的特征。这一操作过程叫做中心语移位。

The movement is one of the important syntactic operations and aims to check the categories＇ grammatical features. In the process of generation of English general interrogative sentence, the strong morpheme Q in C - position triggers head - raising. Thus, the auxiliary verb or the modal auxiliary verb is attracted by the morpheme Q to move to the C - position. This is called Head Movement.