最简方案框架下的英语句法移动操作研究

A Study on the Syntactic Operation of Move in English in the Framework of Minimalist Program

移动是生成语法用来解释自然语言中移位现象的句法操作。在最简方案框架下,特征核查理论认为,移动的对象是词汇形式特征,是受特征核查的驱动;特征赋值理论认为,特征移动必须携带语音内容,是受删除功能词EPP特征需要的驱动;加标理论认为,句法体在接口要获得解读必须被加标,连续、层级的移动是受给句法体加标需要的驱动。对移动操作研究的梳理和例释,不仅能够帮助理解相关理论,还有助于直观地体会生成语法对解释移位现象的不懈努力和对“充分描述”和“充分解释”精神的一贯追求。

Move,studies on which in the framework of minimalist program/MP are summed up and illustrated in the present paper,is a syntactic operation to explain the displacement of sentence constituents in natural language.It is assumed that what is moved is formal feature(s)of a lexical item to be checked in the checking domain,which can be overt with enough phonological material,or covert with no phonological material in accord with the feature-checking theory;that feature(s)must be moved with necessary phonological material to delete the EPP feature of a functional category,whoseφ-features and Case,nevertheless,are checked via the operation of Agree rather than Move,in line with the feature-valuation theory;that a syntactic object must be labeled to be interpreted at interface levels,hence the successive cyclic movement is motivated by the need of labeling a syntactic object in terms of the labeling theory.What is conducted in this paper is helpful for readers to understand relevant theories as well as to directly feel the repeating efforts to explain displacement and the lasting pursuit of adequate description and adequate explanation from the part of generative grammar.