摘要
本文首先对for与of的语类进行分析与界定，认为二者不仅具有实义语类介词的特征，而且具有功能语类的特征，for为标句词，of为格标记。然后，运用格理论和题元理论对for与of在句法功能方面的异同进行比较，发现它们虽然都能保证相关名词短语在句中合法存在，但是for是给不定式分句的指示语指派宾格，而of则是作为所有格的标记，在名词或形容词给内主目语授予所有格时插入的。二者这种句法功能的差异在It is．adj．for／of sb．to do sth．结构中得到具体体现。
This paper analyzes the syntactic category of for and of. It is discovered that both for and of can act not only as contentives,i, e. prepositions but also as functors,i, e. a complementizer and a Case-marker respectively. Then,Theta Theory and Case Theory are employed to compare and contrast the grammatical functions of for and of. These two functors guarantee that pertinent noun phrases are legal in the sentence;however,they differ in that the com- plementizerfor assigns accusative Case to the specifier of the infinitive clause while the Case-marker of is inserted to the sentence to indicate that the internal argument of the noun phrase or adjective phrase is assigned genitive Case. This analysis can be utilized to elucidate the structure ＂It is adj.for/ofsb, to do sth.＂
出处
《外语与外语教学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2009年第3期9-13,共5页
Foreign Languages and Their Teaching
关键词
标句词
of-插入
题元理论
格理论
complementizer
of-insertion
Theta Theory
Case Theory
