“汉语为非格标语言说”献疑

Doubts on the hypothesis that Chinese is a non-case-marking language

胡建华(2007)提出汉语为非格标语言,然而其立论的基础并不坚实:一方面它所列出的语言材料过少。另外,胡文提出假设所依赖的汉语现象,完全可以在生成语法既有的理论框架内得到解释。认真考察其假设、语料与论证后,本文认为,汉语为非格标语言的提法尚可商榷。

The paper argues that Hu's( 2007) proposal that Chinese is a non-case-marking language does not have a sound ground. For one thing,he does not provide enough( cross-) linguistic data to support his hypothesis; for another thing,the Chinese data he relies upon can be explained in the framework of Generative Grammar. After a careful examination of Hu's hypotheses,data and argumentation,the current paper believes that it is still too early to propose that Chinese is no-case-marking language.