句法变异:生成语言学与社会语言学的交汇点

Syntactic Variation: An Intersection of Generative Linguistics and Sociolinguistics

句法变异是普遍存在的语言现象,也是社会语言学变异学派的一个研究短板。生成语言学起初不承认语言变异现象,但是随着最简方案和优选论的引入及句法研究视野逐渐扩大,生成语言学对语言变异现象的观念发生了转变。以句法变异为核心的社会句法学成为两个学派整合的平台,未来合作的重点领域有:儿童语言习得、句法演变及语法化、语言类型学和语料库语言学研究。双方的结合有助于句法变异研究的深入和句法理论框架的完善。

Syntactic variation is a ubiquitous linguistic phenomenon,and also a weak point in the research of the sociolinguistic variation school. Generative linguistics refuses to recognize language variation at first,but with the introduction of minimalist programme and optimization theory and the gradual expansion of syntactic research,the concept of language variation in generative linguistics has gradually changed. Social syntax,with syntactic variation as the core,has become a platform for the integration of the two schools. Future cooperation will focus on children’s language acquisition,grammaticalization,linguistic typology and corpus linguistics. The combination of the two schools will contribute to the further study of syntactic variation and the improvement of the theoretical framework of syntax.