On Post-verbal Durative/Frequency Phrases in Mandarin Chinese

漢語動詞後時量短語和動量短語的再分析

邱一勤(Yiqin Qiu) ； 張小倩(Xiaoqian Zhang) ； 胡笑適(Xiaoshi Hu)

《中國語文通訊》 100卷1期 (2021/01) Pp. 69-82

https://doi.org/10.29499/CrCL.202101_100(1).0006

摘要

This paper discusses the syntactic and semantic properties of post-verbal durative/frequency phrases in Mandarin Chinese. We have presented several analyses of post-verbal durative/ frequency phrases in the generative literature and pointed out that none of them can correctly predict the syntactic distribution which is affected by both aspectual suffixes and the referentiality of objects. Furthermore, we have examined some syntactic and semantic similarities between post-verbal durative and frequency phrases that are ignored in the previous studies. Building on the evidence from ellipsis, semantic scope and parallelism between nominal and verbal domain, this paper provides a unified account that analyzes the post-verbal durative/frequency phrase as the specifier of a functional projection FP between vP and VP. The functional head F contains a [+measure] or [+counting] feature that checks with the specifier. Referential objects occur in the Spec, VP, whereas non-referential objects occur in the complement position of VP.

關鍵字

durative phrase ； frequency phrase ； referentiality ； adjunct ； complement

並列摘要

本文討論現代漢語動詞後時量／動量短語的句法語義特徵。首先檢討生成語法文獻中對時量／動量短語的分析，指出其中存在的理論和經驗問題，然後從省略結構、語義轄域和名詞與動詞域間的並行性幾方面考察，提出用統一分析處理含有動詞後時量／動量短語的結構。論文主要觀點為，動詞後時量／動量短語生成於功能投射FP的指示語位置，與帶有﹝+measure﹞或﹝+counting﹞的中心語進行特徵核查。指稱賓語位於VP的指示語位置，非指稱賓語位於VP的補述語位置。

並列關鍵字

時量短語 ； 動量短語 ； 指稱性 ； 附加語 ； 補足語

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