确指限制与语境存在

Definiteness Restriction and Contextualization Existence

大多数情况下 ,英语存在句中名词组不能是确指形式 ,也就是要受到“确指限制”。近年来 ,人们从句法、语义、语用各方面对确指限制产生的原因和确指名词在存在句中出现的条件进行了各种分析。本文提出了“语境存在”的概念 ,并以此重新分析了确指名词组在存在句中出现的理据。

In most cases,postverbal NPs in English existential sentences cannot be definite, and this is called Definiteness Restriction. People have made all kinds fo analyses of this phenomena with respect to syntax, semantics and pragmatics. The paper provides the concept of contextualization existence and interprets felicitous occurrence of definite NPs in this construction.