照应的分争和共解——《照应句法》评介

照应解释和照应形式的分布一直是研究自然语言语法本质的中心问题之一,句法决定的照应模式也是进入人类语言能力的内在结构的入口。本书形成的方法建立在一种对最简方案和优选论的框架都及其重要的理论机制基础上的。作者选择的研究方法处于最简框架内。作者旨在在于确立的观点之一就是任何缺乏竞争原则的理论都不能严格结实自然语言的照应模式。原则的竞争才能产生共解。

Research into the nature of natural language grmmnars has frequently focused on the distribution of anaphoric interpretations and anaphoric forms. The syntactically determined pattern of anaphora is a portal into the internal architecture of the human linguistic faculty. The approach to anaphora the author develops is modeled on a theoretical mechanism that has become central to the architecture of both the Minimalist Program and Optimality Theory. His approach is couched in the minimalist .framework. One of the main theses the author aims to establish is that no theory lacking a competitive principle could properly account for the patterns of anaphora in natural language.