评Quirk的句型判别标准——Weigh/Cost研究之四

Some notes on R.Quirk’s criteria for clause types.

本文对Randolph Quirk等编著的A Grammar of Contemporary English和A Compre-hensive Grammar of the Enslish Language中三种句型判别标准的效度提出了质疑,并探索了What和How much的多种词类归属和多元句法功能。

This paper questions the validity of Randolph Quirk's three criteria for clause types in A Grammar of Contemporary English and A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, and makes a preliminary exploration into the multiple word class membership and multiple syntactic functions of What and How much.