勉语篇中的一致与论证实现

IF 0.7 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
S. Fedden
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关于性别认同在话语中的作用,一个常见的假设是它为指称对象识别和指称追踪服务。有一些证据支持这一观点,而且越来越多的研究没有找到任何依据;本研究进一步支持了后一种观点。它基于巴布亚语Mian的一个完整注释语料库,并使用了Mian一致性系统的一个值得注意的特性:及物动词中的宾语一致性是“偶发的”,即它取决于及物动词的词汇类型是否与其宾语一致。因此,我们可以衡量在语篇中,当缺乏一致性可能导致论点参考歧义时,语篇使用者是否会操纵显性论点与无效论点来进行补偿。研究结果清楚地表明,同意动词和非同意动词的公开实现对象的比例没有显著差异,因此几乎没有支持性别一致在话语中的参考追踪中发挥主要作用的说法。
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Agreement and argument realization in Mian discourse
A common assumption about the function of gender agreement in discourse is that it serves referent identification and reference tracking. There is some evidence in favour of this view, and an increasing body of research which finds no foundation for it; this study further supports the latter perspective. It is based on a fully annotated corpus of the Papuan language Mian and uses a noteworthy property of the Mian agreement system: object agreement in transitive verbs is “sporadic”, i.e. it depends on the lexical type of a transitive verb whether it agrees with its object. Therefore we can measure whether speakers of Mian manipulate overt vs. null arguments in discourse to compensate whenever lack of agreement might make argument reference ambiguous. The results clearly show that the proportions of overtly realized objects for agreeing verbs and non-agreeing verbs do not differ significantly, thus lending little support to the claim that gender agreement serves a major function in reference tracking in discourse.
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