Phasehood in syntactic derivations : an introductory survey

Abstract

本文介绍阶段理论的主要构思和主张。阶段是完整的小句或有完整论元结构的动词短语,可以诱发移位,而且在音韵上比较独立。句法结构的推导分阶段进行。这个理论尝试解释语言的循环性,最终希望能够探索掌管运算效率的大原则,重新为普遍语法定位。 This paper presents an introductory survey of the phase theory.Phases are full clauses and verb phrases with full argument structure,which can trigger movement and are relatively phonetically independent.Syntactic derivations are by phase.The phase theory attempts to account for the cyclicity of language in terms of principles of efficient computation,approaching Universal Grammar from below.