摘要
本文在生成语言学的语言生物官能(尤其是普遍语法,即UG)的基础上,提出一个修正版的语言模型,即句法特征和功能结构是人类在最大限度使用UG的基础上,出于表征、联结外部世界的动因而内化到句法系统中的。基于这个模型,本文回答了以下两个生成语言学研究需要面对的问题:(1)既然句法推导独立于外部世界,为什么最终生成的语言形式可以用于外部世界中的真值判断和指称?(2)UG的内容有限,只涉及递归性合并,如何产生具体的句法结构?本文也分析了这个语言模型对参数理论、儿童语言习得、语言进化的启示,并论及对理论语言学研究领域的启示。
Drawing on insights from the biological faculty of language,in particular Universal Grammar(UG),this paper proposes a revised language model,according to which syntactic features and functional structures are internalised into the grammatical system when humans,on the one hand,are under the pressure of representing and connecting with the external world,and on the other hand attempt to make the most of their biological endowment of UG.This model addresses two questions that generative linguistics should confront:(1)As syntactic derivation is external-worldindependent,how can linguistic expressions be used to judge truth value and refer to entities in the external world?(2)Considering the impoverished content of UG,which only contains the ability of recursive merge,how can a concrete syntactic structure be generated?This paper also outlines the implications of this model on issues such as parametric theory,language acquisition,and evolution,as well as the delineation of the domain of theoretical linguistics.
作者
胡旭辉
HU Xuhui(School of Foreign Languages,Peking University,Beijing 100871,China)
出处
《外语教学与研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2024年第3期452-462,F0003,共12页
Foreign Language Teaching and Research
