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The Hidden Structure of Thai Noun Phrases.

机译：泰国名词短语的隐藏结构。

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This dissertation investigates the structure and interpretation of noun phrases in Thai and other classifier languages, focusing particular attention on whether Thai contains the same articulated functional architecture as languages with articles. I argue that while bare nouns in Thai do not project DP, noun phrases which include classifiers do, and that this DP functions as a phase for cyclic spell-out. It is argued that Thai DPs involve the obligatory movement of the NP, accounting for their noun-initial word order.;A uniform analysis of clausal modification within the noun phrase is provided, driven by an analysis of the particle thii as a complementizer that derives properties from clauses, with the use of thii in relative clauses being one instance of this use. The analysis of Thai bare nouns as NPs and thii as a relative complementizer are reconciled with a head-movement analysis of Thai relative clauses, motivated by empirical considerations. Under this analysis, noun-complement clauses are analyzed as modifiers, on par with relative clauses. The property-operator analysis of thii is suggested to extend to its occurrence in clefts and infinitival clauses as well.;A further construction is investigated in which modifiers do not combine directly with nouns, but instead follow classifiers, resulting in a definite interpretation. This construction provides evidence for a null determiner in Thai, which is argued to take modifiers as complements, either as CPs or as small clauses. The general prohibition against bare classifiers in Thai, alleviated by the presence of modifiers following classifiers, is argued to follow from a structural economy constraint which prefers definite bare nouns to definite bare classifiers. It is argued that this constraint can also provide a principled account for which classifier languages do and do not allow bare classifiers to occur with nouns.;The ability of quantifiers and their accompanying classifiers to appear discontinuously from their associated noun, or quantifier float, is the final major topic of this dissertation. Scope facts lend themselves to an analysis of quantifier float as a byproduct of Quantifier Raising, the normal movement of quantificational noun phrases to their scope position. Thus, quantifier float is analyzed as movement of the entire DP, with the quantifier and noun occurring in different positions due to the conflicting semantic transparency requirements. A generalization about the availability of quantifier float in classifier languages is presented: only languages in which quantifiers follow nouns allow rightward quantifier float. In light of the proposed analysis, this generalization provides evidence that DP is a phase even in languages that lack articles.
机译：本文研究了泰语和其他分类器语言中名词短语的结构和解释，特别关注泰语是否包含与文章语言相同的铰接功能体系。我认为，尽管泰语中的裸露名词不会投射DP，但包含分类符的名词短语却不会投射DP，并且该DP充当循环拼写的阶段。有人认为泰国的DP涉及到NP的强制性运动，这解释了它们的名词-初始词序。;提供了对名词短语中子句修饰的统一分析，并通过分析作为补充的派生词thii子句的属性，在相对子句中使用thii是这种用法的一个实例。出于实证考虑，对泰国裸露名词作为NP的分析和作为相对补语的thii与对泰国相对从句的动词分析相一致。在这种分析下，名词补语从句作为修饰语与相对从句进行了比较。建议对thii的属性-运算符分析也扩展到它在裂隙和不定式从句中的出现。;进一步研究一种构造，其中修饰语不直接与名词结合，而是跟随分类符，从而产生确定的解释。这种结构为泰语中的空确定符提供了证据，认为该确定符将修饰语作为补充，作为CP或小从句。有人认为，泰国人普遍禁止使用裸露的分类器，这是由于在分类器之后出现修饰符而减轻的，这是由于结构性经济约束所致，后者倾向于使用确定的裸露的名词而不是确定的裸露的分类器。有人认为，该约束条件还可以为分类器语言提供原则上的解释，并且不允许分类器语言与名词一起出现;量词及其伴随的分类器从其关联名词或量词浮点不连续出现的能力是本论文的最后一个主要主题。范围事实有助于对作为“量词提升”的副产品的量词浮动进行分析，量词名词短语向其作用域位置的正常运动。因此，量词浮点被分析为整个DP的运动，由于冲突的语义透明性要求，量词和名词出现在不同的位置。给出了关于分类器语言中量词浮点数可用性的概括：只有量词跟在名词后面的语言才允许向右量词浮点数。根据建议的分析，这种概括提供了证据，即使在缺少文章的语言中，DP也是一个阶段。

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    Jenks, Peter Spiros Eric.;

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    Harvard University.;

  • 授予单位 Harvard University.;
  • 学科 Language Linguistics.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2011
  • 页码 348 p.
  • 总页数 348
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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