The Size of Clausal Complements

IF 3 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Susanne Wurmbrand
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Abstract

Drawing mainly—but not exclusively—on data from Germanic, this article compares syntactic, morphological, and semantic approaches to size differences of complement clauses. Focusing on two phenomena that have been related to clause size reduction and truncation—Exceptional Case Marking (ECM) and restructuring—it is shown that their distribution is radically different and that clause size cannot be the main factor regulating both of these phenomena. This article provides a solution to this conflicting state of affairs and lays out an approach that builds on a fine-grained CP structure, including both syntactic and semantic categories, a reduced structure for infinitives, and a syntax–meaning mapping that predicts different minimal clause sizes for different semantic types of complements. Based on the distribution of ECM in Germanic, a tentative ECM hierarchy is suggested that follows implicational containment relations of an expanded CP. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Linguistics, Volume 10 is January 2024. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.
小句补语的大小
本文主要(但不完全)以日耳曼语的数据为基础,比较了补语从句大小差异的句法、形态和语义方法。重点研究了两种与小句缩减和截断有关的现象——例外情况标记(ECM)和重组——表明它们的分布是完全不同的,小句大小不能成为调节这两种现象的主要因素。本文为这种冲突状态提供了一种解决方案,并展示了一种基于细粒度CP结构的方法,该方法包括语法和语义类别、不定式的简化结构以及用于预测不同语义类型的补语的不同最小子句大小的语法-含义映射。根据日耳曼语中ECM的分布,建议建立一个初步的ECM层次结构,该结构遵循扩展CP的隐含遏制关系。《语言学年度评论》第10卷的最终在线出版日期预计为2024年1月。修订后的估计数请参阅http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates。
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7.20
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6.20%
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37
期刊介绍: The Annual Review of Linguistics, in publication since 2015, covers significant developments in the field of linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and their interfaces. Reviews synthesize advances in linguistic theory, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, language change, biology and evolution of language, typology, as well as applications of linguistics in many domains.
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