甲骨文三宾语句的句法推导

The syntactic derivation of the triple object construction in oracle bone inscriptions

三宾语句是甲骨文中"特有"的句型,由一个祭祀动词带人事、神祇、祭品3个宾语构成。本文试图在最简方案框架下对甲骨文三宾语句进行句法推导,以期解决三宾语句的句法生成问题。甲骨文中的三宾语句源自祭祀事件中多个表达事件意义的轻动词促发VP用牲中心语动词成分及其拷贝成分提升移位融合并入一个主干动词VP祭祀短语的移位运算。

The triple object construction(TOC), with a verb of a ritual event and three objects expressed as personnel, gods and sacrifice respectively, is a 'peculiar' sentence pattern in the oracle bone inscriptions. This paper, under the framework of the Minimalist Program, attempts to provide syntactic derivation of TOC in order to solve the problems of TOC's syntactic generation. The reason why there exists TOC in oracle bone inscriptions is that it follows from a shift operation in which multiple light verbs(for expressing some event meanings) motivating the center verbal constituent of the verb phrase(VP用牲) and its copy components to raise, move and merge into the main verb phrase(VP祭祀) in a ritual event.