Friedmann N, Grodzinsky Y
Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Brain Lang. 1997 Feb 15;56(3):397-425. doi: 10.1006/brln.1997.1795.
This paper discusses the description of agrammatic production focusing on the verbal inflectional morphology. Agrammatism in Hebrew is investigated through an experiment with a patient who displays a highly selective impairment: agreement inflection is completely intact, but tense inflection, use of copula, and embedded structures are severely impaired. A retrospective examination of the literature shows that our findings are corroborated by others. A selective account of the agrammatic production deficiency is proposed, according to which only a subclass of the functional syntactic categories is impaired in this syndrome. The consequence of this deficit is the pruning of the syntactic phrase marker of agrammatic patients, which impairs performance from the impaired node and higher. These findings also bear upon central issues in linguistic theories, particularly that of Pollock (1989), regarding split inflection.
本文讨论了以动词屈折形态为重点的语法缺失性产出描述。通过对一名表现出高度选择性损伤的患者进行实验，研究了希伯来语中的语法缺失现象：一致屈折完全正常，但时态屈折、系动词的使用和嵌入结构严重受损。对文献的回顾性研究表明，我们的发现得到了其他研究的证实。本文提出了对语法缺失性产出缺陷的选择性解释，即该综合征中仅功能句法类别中的一个子类受损。这种缺陷的结果是语法缺失患者的句法短语标记被删减，这会损害从受损节点及更高节点开始的表现。这些发现也涉及语言理论中的核心问题，尤其是波洛克（1989）关于分裂屈折的理论。
