题名

On Arguments against Comparative Deletion in Mandarin

并列篇名

論漢語中比較刪略結構是否存在之證據

DOI

10.6503/THJCS.2017.47(2).03

作者

謝易達(I-Ta Chris Hsieh)

关键词

bĭ-comparatives ； comparative deletion ； ellipsis ； dōu-adjunction ； 帶「比」字比較句 ； 比較句刪略 ； 刪略結構 ； 量化副詞加接

期刊名称

清華學報

卷期/出版年月

47卷2期（2017 / 06 / 01）

页次

255 - 287

内容语文

英文
中文摘要

In this paper, I discuss some arguments presented in the previous research against the deletion-based account (i.e., the Reduction Analysis) of the Mandarin bǐcomparative, which include the lack of the subcomparative, the lack of the embedded standard, and the distribution of the quantificational adverb dōu in this construction. Working with an Agree-based theory of selection and a featural account of PF-deletion, I show that a deletion-based account does capture these facts. The proposal is built on the assumptions that i) deletion may rescue some illegitimate representations caused by uninterpretable features at PF (Wurmbrand 2014; see also Merchant 2009; Bosković 2011; and others) and ii) the bǐ-constituent contains a small clause (i.e., vP) and lacks all the higher functional clausal heads (e.g., T, Asp, Mod, etc.) (cf. Pancheva 2006).
英文摘要

本文探討漢語中帶「比」字比較句的句法結構；討論的焦點為「刪略分析」在分析帶「比」字比較句時所遇到的問題。本文指出，若在帶「比」字比較句中，將「比」所帶的補語視為小句 (small clause)，文獻中所提出的「刪略分析」所遇到的問題，將可獲得解釋。
主题分类 人文學 > 人文學綜合
人文學 > 歷史學
人文學 > 語言學
人文學 > 中國文學
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