SUMMING QUANTITIES OF OBJECTS AT THE LEFT EDGE

IF 0.3 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Taiwan Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2014-09-01 DOI:10.6519/TJL.2014.12(2).2

N. Zhang

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the syntactic structure of the construction represented by How many books did Ken borrow and Kim steal in total?, in which the semantics of the left-edge nominal (e.g., how many books) is cumulatively ＂shared＂ by the objects of the two clausal conjuncts. While efforts have been made to analyze the semantics of the construction in the literature, the syntax of the construction has been understudied and been considered a challenge to generative grammar. Extending Chaves's (2012 'Conjunction, cumulation and respectively readings', Journal of Linguistics 48:297-344) analysis for a subject-sharing construction, I propose a predicate-formation analysis for the construction. While providing a possible syntactic derivation for the construction, this research also probes the properties of the specific type of A-bar movement involved in the formation of a predicate.

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对左侧边缘的对象数量求和

本文分析了以“Ken借了多少书，Kim偷了多少书”为代表的构式的句法结构。，其中左边缘名词的语义(例如，有多少本书)由两个小句连词的对象累积“共享”。虽然在文献中已经对结构的语义进行了分析，但对结构的句法研究不足，并被认为是对生成语法的挑战。扩展Chaves(2012年“连接、累积和分别阅读”，《语言学杂志》48:297-344)对主题共享结构的分析，我提出了对该结构的谓语形成分析。在为谓语结构提供可能的句法推导的同时，本研究还探讨了谓语形成过程中特定类型的a -bar移动的性质。

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Taiwan Journal of Linguistics LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

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0.40

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20 weeks

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