Friedmann Naama, Taranto Gina, Shapiro Lewis P, Swinney David
Language and Brain Lab, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel, http://www.tau.ac.il/~naamafr ,
Linguist Inq. 2008 Summer;39(3):355-377. doi: 10.1162/ling.2008.39.3.355. Epub 2008 Jun 20.
According to the Unaccusative Hypothesis, unaccusative subjects are base-generated in object position and move to subject position. We examined this hypothesis using the cross-modal lexical priming technique, which tests whether and when an antecedent is reactivated during the online processing of a sentence. We compared sentences containing unergative verbs with sentences containing unaccusatives, both alternating and nonalternating, and found that subjects of unaccusatives reactivate after the verb, while subjects of unergatives do not. Alternating unaccusatives showed a mixed pattern of reactivation. The research directly supports the Unaccusative Hypothesis.
根据非宾格假说,非宾格主语在宾语位置基础生成,然后移动到主语位置。我们使用跨模态词汇启动技术检验了这一假说,该技术测试在句子的在线处理过程中一个先行词是否以及何时被重新激活。我们比较了包含非作格动词的句子和包含非宾格动词的句子(包括交替性和非交替性的),发现非宾格动词的主语在动词之后被重新激活,而非作格动词的主语则不会。交替性非宾格动词呈现出一种混合的重新激活模式。该研究直接支持了非宾格假说。