摘要:尽管自然语言中普遍存在疑问结构;但各种语言表达疑问范畴的策略实不相同。在普遍语法框架下;本研究探讨了以下问题:表达英汉两种语言疑问结构差异的参数是什么?这些参数存在于哪些句子成分中?这些参数对于整个自然语言的意义如何?
Although the existence of interrogatives seems a universal property of natural languages,languages differ substantially in the strategies they employ for coding interrogatives.In the framework of universal grammar,the present study of the interrogatives in both English and Chinese explores the following questions: What is the range of parametric variation specific for interrogatives permitted in English and Chinese? In what components of the two languages are the parametric variations to be found? What is the significance of the interrogative parameters for natural languages as a whole?