关系句的语序与FEO规则

The order of relative clauses and FEO calculus

当句中关系句的种类不同时,个体(平面)关系句会比阶段(平面)关系句更靠近中心名词一些。对于这一语序现象产生的原因,目前还没有一致看法。本文根据FEO规则以及关系句句法位置的灵活性,认为关系句作为名词短语的嫁接成分在句法上是自由的,但是阶段关系句与个体关系句作为嫁接成分分别具有不同的语义要求,而且正是其自身的语义要求影响了两者之间的语序。

Individual-level relative clauses need to occur closer to the head noun than stage-level ones,when the types of relatives differ in a sentence.Yet researchers have different accounts for the order of the two types of relatives.On the basis of FEO Calculus and the flexible positions of relatives in a nominal phrase,this paper argues that stage-level and individual-level relatives are syntactically free as nominal adjuncts;however,they possess their own semantic requirements as adjuncts,and it is their semantic requirements that produce the order effect.