再论影响“在+处所”句法位置的因素

More on the Syntactic Position of “Zai(在)+Location”

张赪(1997)提出动词或动词性结构的音节数目是影响“在+处所”句法位置的最重要因素,戴浩一(1985)认为“在+处所”在句子所表达的事件中的认知语义地位决定其句法位置,其语义类型与句法位置的匹配规律体现了时间顺序像似性。本文支持戴浩一的观点,认为音节数目限制的说法不仅不能否定戴浩一的观点,反而从反面支持了他。有学者认为时间顺序像似性存在一些反例,本文对此提出了商榷。

This paper shows some defects in the proposal by Zhang （1997） that the number of syllables in the VP determined the syntactic position of ＂zai（在） ＋ location＂ and supports the agument in Tai （1985） that the syntactic position of ＂zai（在） ＋location＂ is determined by the role it plays in the conceptual structure of the sentence. This embodies ＂the principle of temporal sequence＂（PTS）. Zhang＇ s proposal can be interpreted by the Principle of Early Immediate Constituents （EIC）. This phenomenon can not counter the PTS but support it instead. There are some phenomena which other writers suggest as the counter-examples of PTS, through reanalysis of these phenomena, we prove that they are not real counter-examples.