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The Theory of Empty Noun in Chinese: With Special Reference to the Right Node Raising Construction.

机译：汉语中的空名词理论：特别提到右节点的提升构造。

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This dissertation aims to explore issues of null/empty arguments in Chinese. Earlier study on empty arguments in East Asian Languages, such as Chinese and Japanese (Huang 1984, 1987, Xu 1986) has argued that Chinese/Japanese empty arguments have their own peculiar properties that are different from big PRO and small pro in the standard theory based on European languages, such as English and Italian. For example, Huang (1984, 1987) proposes the Generalized Control Rule (GCR) for the empty subjects in Chinese in order to account for the interpretative asymmetry between empty subjects and empty objects. Xu (1986), on the other hand, remarks that such subject-object asymmetry does not exist in Chinese, and the interpretative asymmetry is by large determined by the discourse and linguistic contexts. The latter, however, may turn out to be too unrestricted since empty arguments do display grammatical restrictions that can hardly be fully accounted for by pragmatics alone. In view of this problem, and given evidence from the Null Object Construction in Chinese, Li (2005 et seq.) has clearly shown that there indeed is a grammaticalized subject-object asymmetry with respect to the LF properties of empty arguments in Chinese, and such asymmetry can be explained if we postulate a true empty category, whose existence is nonetheless subject to a fundamental grammatical property, namely, subcategorization. Li argues that the subcategorized object can remain empty in Chinese during syntactic derivation, and their semantic contents are `recovered' at LF via LF-copying or from the discourse context. Li's proposal therefore provides an elegant solution out of the existing dilemma.;The dissertation finds solid evidence for Li's proposal of True Empty Category. It is argued that the theory of True Empty Category be applied to the following three constructions, all of which involve theoretical complications that are difficult to be explained in standard theories: the Null Object Construction, the NP-ellipsis, and the Right Node Raising Construction. One of the general properties across the three constructions is that they all contain missing elements (gaps) in sentences. It has been demonstrated that the missing elements in these constructions cannot be derived via PF-deletion or syntactic movement. In view of the fact that the missing elements in these constructions are all subcategorized/licensed by their corresponding heads, I show that True Empty Category, when applied to these three constructions, yields satisfying results. Semantically, in contrast to the PF-deletion approach, the interpretation of the missing element (True Empty Category) can be obtained via LF-copying (or the discourse context/convention) without resorting to the presence of linguistic antecedent. It is further proposed that although True Empty Category may enjoy a wider range of interpretative possibilities, it is constrained, nevertheless, by syntactic and semantic well-formedness conditions. To spell out these conditions, True Empty Category must be syntactically subcategorized by a head that selects the [N] feature. Semantically, LF-copying of True Empty Category must observe other language-specific LF constraints, such as the subset rule and the identification rule in two different topicalization constructions in Chinese. I therefore show that the theory of True Empty Category represents a more explanatorily adequate improvement on both theoretical and empirical grounds.
机译：本文旨在探讨中文中的空/空论证问题。早期对诸如中文和日语之类的东亚语言中的空论的研究（Huang 1984，1987，Xu 1986）认为，中日空论具有其独特的特性，与标准理论中的大PRO和小PRO有所不同。基于欧洲语言，例如英语和意大利语。例如，Huang（1984，1987）提出了针对中文空白主题的广义控制规则（GCR），以解决空白主题与空白对象之间的解释性不对称问题。另一方面，徐（1986）指出，汉语中不存在这样的主客不对称性，解释性不对称性在很大程度上取决于话语和语言环境。但是，后者可能没有太多限制，因为空参数确实显示了语法限制，而仅靠语用学很难完全解释这些限制。鉴于这个问题，并从中文的空对象构造提供了证据，李（2005年及其后）清楚地表明，对于中文中空参数的LF属性，确实存在语法化的主客体不对称性，并且如果我们假设一个真正的空类别，这种不对称性可以得到解释，尽管它的存在仍受基本的语法性质，即子类别的影响。 Li认为，在语法推导过程中，子类别的对象在中文中可以保持空白，其语义内容可以通过LF复制或从语篇上下文中在LF处“恢复”。因此，李的提议为现有的困境提供了一个优雅的解决方案。论文为李的提议的“真正的空类别”找到了有力的证据。有人认为，“真空类别”理论可应用于以下三种结构，所有这些结构均涉及理论上难以在标准理论中解释的复杂性：空对象结构，NP-省略号和右节点抬高结构。这三种构造的一般特性之一是它们都包含句子中缺少的元素（空白）。已经证明，这些构造中的缺失元素不能通过PF删除或句法运动来导出。鉴于这些构造中的缺失元素全部由其对应的类别进行分类/许可，我证明了将True Empty Category应用于这三种构造时，可获得令人满意的结果。在语义上，与PF删除方法相反，可以通过LF复制（或话语上下文/惯例）获得对缺失元素（“真空类别”）的解释，而无需诉诸语言先行词。进一步提出，尽管“真正的空类别”可能具有更广泛的解释可能性，但它仍然受到语法和语义格式良好条件的限制。要说明这些情况，必须按选择[N]功能的标题在语法上对True Empty Category进行分类。在语义上，“真空类别”的LF复制必须遵守其他特定于语言的LF约束，例如在两种不同的中文主题化构造中的子集规则和标识规则。因此，我证明，“真空类别”理论在理论和经验上都代表了更充分的解释性改进。

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  • 作者

    Wang, Yuyun.;

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    University of Southern California.;

  • 授予单位 University of Southern California.;
  • 学科 Linguistics.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2014
  • 页码 213 p.
  • 总页数 213
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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