PRO DROPPING MECHANISMS
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概要
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We have examined the pro-dropping phenomena in Italian, early child English and Japanese, which share the optionality. The difference between the three types is that Italian has rich inflectional morphology where early English does not. The first allows the presence of overt elements which the second systematically lacks. Japanese lacks AGR, unlike Italian, and is not subject to AG/PRO parameter as English. The absence/presence of the elements are entirely optional but subject to the situation. Then we have seen there exists, two (or three, counting AG/PRO parameter as independent) mechanisms for the dropping of pro. One is the instance of syntax, the sentence grammar, and the other being the instance of situation, the discourse grammar, Whether or not the omitted elements are the same NP type we have not discussed here. Neither have we investigated the syntactic licencing mechanism of the omission in the framework of grammar (e. g. ECP). Saito (1985) suggested that the empty category in Japanese is also pro [+N, -V] which should be reexamined in the light of ECP and Extended Projection Principle.
- 山形県立米沢女子短期大学の論文
- 1992-12-28