Nominal Predicates in Mandarin Chinese

漢語的名詞謂語

魏廷冀(Ting-Chi Wei)

《Taiwan Journal of Linguistics》 5卷2期 (2007/12) Pp. 85-130

https://doi.org/10.6519/TJL.2007.5(2).4

摘要

本文重新檢視Tang (1998)的漢語「主要小句」分析，以期更能夠掌握漢語名詞謂語的實際運作。我們發現，漢語名詞謂語的結構可以是「光棍」名詞組或者是「非光棍」之投射；所有的名詞謂語皆呈現一種「修飾語－被修飾語」的偏正關係，並且與主語形成一種「修飾主謂關係」；整個主要小句的結構與一般句無異，是一種「非光棍」結構，而非Tang所主張的「光棍」結構。此外本文也支持，漢語有定／無定名詞組爲論元而非謂語之假設。

關鍵字

名詞謂語 ； 偏正式 ； 修飾性謂語 ； 數量詞組 ； 無定名詞

並列摘要

This article reconsiders Tang's (1998) analysis of Mandarin matrix small clauses (SC) in an attempt to get a heifer understanding of the structure of the Mandarin nominal predicate. It is found that the structures which the nominal predicate can take can be a bare NP or even not-so-bare projections. All the nominal predicates manifest a kind of modifier-modifiee pattern, which implements 'modificational predication' of the subject Thus, the matrix SC is structurally ”not-so-bare” rather than ”tare” Finally, the claim of Mandarin indefinite/definite DP as an argument, not a predicate is further strengthened in this work.

並列關鍵字

nominal predicate ； modifier-modifiee ； modificational predication ； NumP ； indefinite

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