Trotzke Andreas
Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
Center for Theoretical Linguistics, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Front Psychol. 2020 Sep 4;11:2152. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02152. eCollection 2020.
This article presents a perspective on syntactic cyclicity in minimalism that is compatible with fundamental ideas in construction-grammar approaches. In particular, I outline the minimalist approach to syntactic structure building and highlight that units of potentially any phrasal size can be atomic items in the syntactic derivation, showing that the opposition between simplex linguistic items ("words") and more complex ones ("phrases") in minimalism is in principle as artificial as in many construction-grammar approaches. Based on this perspective on structure building, I focus on the empirical domain of subextraction patterns out of complex subjects, adjuncts, and complements, and I demonstrate that the acceptability patterns in this domain can be explained by a functional approach to syntactic cyclicity: Unacceptable patterns are ruled out not for configurational (and hence syntactic) reasons, but rather they systematically follow from infelicitous interpretations at the syntax-discourse interface. This raises the question of whether syntactic cyclicity is (at least in part) motivated by performance (read: "language-in-use") constraints, which I consider another area for fruitful interaction between construction-grammar and usage-based accounts on the one hand and minimalism on the other hand.
本文提出了一种简约主义中句法循环性的观点，该观点与构式语法方法中的基本观点相一致。具体而言，我概述了句法结构构建的简约主义方法，并强调在句法推导中，潜在的任何短语大小的单位都可以是原子项，这表明简约主义中简单语言项（“单词”）和更复杂语言项（“短语”）之间的对立原则上与许多构式语法方法中的对立一样人为。基于这种结构构建的观点，我关注从复杂主语、状语和补足语中提取成分的实证领域，并证明该领域中的可接受性模式可以通过一种句法循环性的功能方法来解释：不可接受的模式被排除不是因为结构（因此是句法）原因，而是它们系统地源于句法 - 语篇界面上不合适的解释。这就提出了一个问题，即句法循环性是否（至少部分地）由表现（即“使用中的语言”）限制所驱动，我认为这是构式语法和基于用法的理论与简约主义之间富有成效的互动的另一个领域。
