论“我们那口子”的生成方式

On the Generative Mechanism of Mandarin Phrase Women Neikouzi(我们那口子)

根据优选论,"我们那口子"是由"我们家那口子"省略"家"得来的,而非用"我们"替换"我那口子"中的"我"得到的。"我们那口子"生成后,对同类结构的产生起到了类推样板的示范作用。

Personal pronouns are the main person deictic expressions. They have both unmarked uses, which obey the truth condition, and marked uses, which disobey the truth condition. An optimality theory approach has been adopted here to deal with the generative mechanism of the marked use of personal pronoun deixis women neikouzi（我们那口子）. We argue that the phrase women neikouzi（我们那口子） comes from the phrase womenjia neikouzi（我们那口子） by deleting jia（家）, and not from the phrase wo neikouzi（我那口子） by substitution of wo（我） with women（ 我们）.