Syntactic analysis of Chinese passives

Abstract

本文首先提出汉语被动句"双重地位 说"在分析上的一些问题。在"动词说"的框架下,进一步完善和补充"作格化"理论。所谓"作格化",其实就是把不能指派受格的轻动词BECOME引入推导 过程中。此外,短被动句内受事论元的移位是为了满足轻动词的要求;而长被动句内移位的目的是为了满足"谓语化"的要求。 Some questions regarding the ’duality approach’ to Chinese passives are raised in this paper.Under the ’complementation approach’,the theory of ’ergativization’ is further refined.In so called ’ergativization’,the light verb BECOME,which is unable to assign accusative case,is selected and introduced to the derivation.Movement of the patient argument in short passives is triggered by the EPP feature of the light verb,while movement in long passives is for ’predicativization’.