SVO言語の統語特性を探る(1) : 主語平叙節のかたち

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This is Part One in the intended series of studies on the syntactic propertes of SVO languages. Section 1 in the present paper takes a look at the word-order typology of languages. Section 2 mentions English, Vietnamese, and Chinese as SVO languages. The SVO properties of these languages are presented in section 4. In section 5 the syntactic forms and properties of the declarative clause as subject of the sentence in these three languages are presented. The fact is pointed out that English has that-clause as the normal form of a declarative sentential subject, while in both Vietnamese and Chinese the declarative subject clause occurs without any overt clause-introducer such as the English that. Since in all the three languages the declarative subject clause occurs without a nominal head, it is assumed that the clause is some expanded form of S, not an NP. Koster's (1978) framework for dealing with English subject that-clause is applied to declarative subject clauses in Vietnamese and Chinese. The latter two languages, however, lack overt wh-movement, which makes it difficult to adopt Koster's (1978) idea of wh-movement coupled with the satellite sentential. Finally in section 6, it is suggested that LF-level wh-movement be considered as a possible solution to the problem.
田園調布学園大学の論文
2003-03-20