“吃食堂”类结构的外框架模型诠释

An Exo-skeletal Model to the chi shitang Structure

针对以往研究解释力不足的问题,本文结合语言事实并立足外框架模型,认为"吃食堂"的初级结构应是"在食堂吃"。具体来说,"在食堂"基础生成于VP的标识语位置,动词"吃"经提升移至轻动词v的位置,与抽象的vDO合并,并在该位置统制介词短语"在食堂",再经介词融合,整个结构拼读为"吃食堂"的表层形式。"吃"在事件结构中担任功能范畴,其原本的词汇信息会在概念-意向界面作为额外信息被激发出来。若此分析合理,其它相关的非典型宾语结构亦有望获得有效解释。

In view of the explanatory inadequacy in previous studies,this paper,based on language facts,applies the exo-skeletal model to demonstrate that the basic structure of chi shitang吃食堂’lit:eat the restaurant’should be zai shitang chi在食堂吃’eat at the restaurant’.To be more specific,zai shitang is base-generated at Spec,VP,and chi is raised to v and merges with vDO,thus forming[vDO:chi]which c-commands the PP zai shitang.Due to the preposition incorporation,the surface structure is presented as chi shitang.In this event structure,chi吃’eat’is analyzed as a functional item,whose original lexical information is activated at the C-I interface level as extra information.Following this line of thought,other relevant structures of non-canonical objects are expected to be accounted for validly.