最简方案特征传递理论下英语CP型非限定结构的语段分析

A Feature-Inheritance Analysis of English Non-finite Structures with CP Complements Under the Framework of Minimalist Program

生成语法的管约论把非限定性补语句统一视为屈折性投射(IP),而最简方案基于特征传递理论的最简分析则把want、intend和prefer等动词所选择的for-to不定式句分析为作其补语的控制类动词。基于这种分析,类似结构的标句词呈现出语音拼读的个体差异,而英语标句词that、for及其对应的隐性形式均可视为(非)限定性的形式标记。除了英语中相关的提升和控制结构外,焦点成分只能位于that之后和for之前的语料也可以作为该分析的经验证据。依据语段中心语特征传递理论,文章把相关的限定句和非限定句视为由标句词的(不)及物性特征差异所引发的句法表现。

The Government and Binding theory provides a uniform IP analysis for nonfinite clauses(complements).However,the Minimalist Program analyzes "want","intend" and "prefer"as sub-categorizing CP structures as their complements,whose complementizers have idiosyncratic phonetic realizations,and the overt or covert morphological forms of that and for indicate(non)-finiteness of the clauses.In addition to raising and control structures in English,linguistic data that places focused elements between"that" and "for"supports the proposed analysis.On the basis of feature-transference theory,the present article analyzes the syntactic distribution of finite and non-finite clauses as the result of the feature of(in)transitivity encoded with the complementizers.