冠词缺失与中介语句法损伤研究

A study of missing articles and the impairment of interlanguage syntax

本研究在最简方案理论框架内,通过分析中国学习者英语语料库中的书面语料,探讨二语中的冠词缺失和中介语句法损伤之间的关系。结果显示,中国英语学习者虽然省略使用了一定数量的英语冠词,但其英语中的功能语类D能够得以体现,几乎没有出现冠词替代错误,也没有违反there be存现句的"限定性限制"。表明中国英语学习者具有区分限定性与非限定性的句法知识,已经设定了英语的限定性特征值,中介语句法系统没有损伤。

The present study aims to investigate the relationship between missing articles and the impairment of interlanguage syntax within the theoretical framework of the Minimalist Program by examining the written production data from Chinese Learner English Corpus(CLEC).The results show that Chinese learners of English omit some articles,but the functional category D is present in their English,very little article substitution is found and the Definiteness Restriction in there-insertion is also observed.Such findings imply that Chinese learners of English distinguish definiteness from indefiniteness,the feature of definiteness is specified,and Chinese learners' English syntactic system is not impaired.