Bastiaanse R, van Zonneveld R
Groningen Graduate School for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Brain Lang. 1998 Sep;64(2):165-81. doi: 10.1006/brln.1998.1972.
This study focuses on the relation between verb position and verb inflection in the speech production of Dutch agrammatic patients. In Dutch, the finite verb is moved to second position in the matrix clause (de jongen leest een boek: the boy reads a book), but remains in its base generated, that is final, position in the embedded clause (ik zie dat de jongen een boek leest: lit. I see that the boy a book reads). Nonfinite verbs (infinitives and participles) are always in clause final position. Spontaneous speech analysis shows that agrammatics are sensitive to this relation between finiteness and structural position, although they are reluctant to produce finite verbs. Experimental data shows that verb inflection as such is not the problem: these patients are perfectly able to produce a finite verb in final position in an embedded clause; this is not more difficult than producing a nonfinite verb in the same position. If the finite verb has to be produced in Verb Second position in the matrix clause, however, the patients' performance drops dramatically.
本研究聚焦于荷兰语语法缺失患者言语产出中动词位置与动词屈折变化之间的关系。在荷兰语中，限定动词会移至主句的第二位（de jongen leest een boek：男孩读书），但在从句中则保持其基础生成位置，即句末位置（ik zie dat de jongen een boek leest：字面意思为“我看到男孩一本书读”）。非限定动词（不定式和分词）总是位于句末位置。自发言语分析表明，语法缺失患者对限定性与结构位置之间的这种关系很敏感，尽管他们不太愿意产出限定动词。实验数据表明，动词屈折变化本身并非问题：这些患者完全能够在从句的句末位置产出限定动词；这并不比在相同位置产出非限定动词更难。然而，如果限定动词必须在主句的动词第二位产出，患者的表现会大幅下降。
