Kemmerer David
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, 1353 Heavilon Hall, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1353, USA.
Brain Lang. 2008 Jul;106(1):72-8. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.04.008. Epub 2007 May 29.
Allen [Allen, M. (2005). The preservation of verb subcategory knowledge in a spoken language comprehension deficit. Brain and Language, 95, 255-264.] reports a single patient, WBN, who, during spoken language comprehension, is still able to access some of the syntactic properties of verbs despite being unable to access some of their semantic properties. Allen claims that these findings challenge linguistic theories which assume that much of the syntactic behavior of verbs can be predicted from their meanings. I argue, however, that this conclusion is not supported by the data for two reasons: first, Allen focuses on aspects of verb syntax that are not claimed to be influenced by verb semantics; and second, he ignores aspects of verb syntax that are claimed to be influenced by verb semantics.
艾伦[艾伦，M.（2005年）。口语理解缺陷中动词子类别知识的保留。《大脑与语言》，95，255 - 264]报告了一位名叫WBN的患者，该患者在口语理解过程中，尽管无法获取动词的某些语义属性，但仍能够获取动词的一些句法属性。艾伦声称，这些发现对一些语言理论提出了挑战，这些理论认为动词的许多句法行为可以从其意义中预测出来。然而，我认为，这一结论没有得到数据的支持，原因有两个：第一，艾伦关注的是动词句法中那些未被声称受动词语义影响的方面；第二，他忽略了动词句法中那些被声称受动词语义影响的方面。
