ON THE SCOPE PHENOMENA OF CHINESE QUANTIFIERS

中文语法中数量值的范距现象

黃宣范(Shuan-Fan Huang)

《Journal of Chinese Linguistics》 9卷2期 (1981/06) Pp. 226-243

摘要

This article argues that the scope rules for Chinese quantifiers interacting with other quantifiers and operators have none of the complications that mark the English quantification system and can be stated in purely surface terms. This is a strong claim, yet supportable by an array of unambiguous evidence. The Chinese evidence thus constitutes a strong counter-example to the alleged universals for quantifier scope claimed by Ioup (1976: 37-58) where the author argued in effect that relative linear ordering at the surface level was not a parameter of quantifier scope. Though scope rules for a certain language may be shown to require additional complications on the form of its grammar, it would be inconceivable for a language not to exploit to the fullest extent possible the surface order possibilities as an essential component of its scope phenomena. Chinese is just such a language.

並列摘要

本文旨在讨论中文数量值在句子中的逻辑范距问题，指出数量值或运作词之间的逻辑范距，基本上仅仅涉及表层结构关系。这是个新鲜的结论，但中文证据都极为清楚。如果本文所持论点是正确的话，则Ioup（1976）所谓数量值的范距可以不过问表层结构一说便无法成立，应予扬棄。本文最后一节讨论中文这种语言在语言心理运作方面的意义。