Treść książki
Przejdź do opcji czytnikaPrzejdź do nawigacjiPrzejdź do informacjiPrzejdź do stopki
10
1.Introduction
5.Derivations.Relatedtotheaboveabandonmentofdeepstructureisthe
needtoreplacederivationaloperationswithconstraintswhichallow
correctsyntacticconfigurationsandruleoutothers.
6.Thedivisionbetweenthelexiconandsyntax.Ratherthanbeingseparate,
lexicalandfunctionformshavebeenarguedtooccupyacontinuum
withalargetransitionalmidsectionofelementsthatexhibitbothlexi‑
calandsyntacticproperties.
7.Modularity.Notonlyarethelexiconandsyntaxunlikelytobedisjoint
sets,butmoregenerally,ithasbeenarguedthatgeneticallydeter-
minedmodulesdedicatedtoculture-dependentskillslikereadingare
implausible.
8.Thedivisionbetweencoreandperiphery.ThesuccessoftheStandard
Theorywasconditionalonconfiningfocustothecorephenomenaand
ignoringidiosyncraticidiomsrelegatedtoperiphery.Recently,asthe
numberofidiosyncraticconstructionsbeinguncoveredgrew,ithas
becomeobviousthatperipheryhasbecomeamuchtoolargearefuse
heap—anelephantintheroomthatcannolongerbedismissedas
unimportanttolinguisticanalysis.
Amongreasonsbehindthesemistakenassumptionsisthatintheearly
daysofGenerativeGrammar,researchcouldnotbenefitfromtoolslike
automatedcorpora,whichmakeitpossibletoconfronttheorizingwith
evidence(Stefanowitsch,2006).Nowadays,analysesofcorpusdataare
used,amongotherthings,toillustratethemagnitudeofperipheryorthe
blurreddivisionbetweenthelexiconandsyntax.
However,corpusdataarerarelymarshaledtoquestionthenewpost-
-generativeviews,evenfairlyimplausibleones,suchasthebeliefinhighly
semanticizedclosed-classconstructions(Szcześniak,2013).Theobjective
ofthiscontributionistoatempttoreconcilecurrentandtraditionalGener-
ativeGrammarmodels.Whilethegenerativeassumptionsaboutlanguage
mayhavebeensimplistic,itisunlikelythattheyareallwrong.Rejecting
themprematurelymaybethrowingoutthebabywiththebathwater.Half
acenturyaferthebeginningofthegenerativetraditionseemslikeagood
momenttotakestockandconsidertheopposingviews,evaluatetheir
relativemeritsandshortcomings,andfindcommonground.Thisstudy
ofgrammaticalconstructionslikethex!sway,incredulityconstruction,or
theinto-gerundconstructionaddressesthefollowingquestions:
—Isitpossibletoreconcilethelexicon-syntaxcontinuumwiththetradi‑
tionaldivisionview?
—Aretraditionalviewsofclosed-classfunctionformsasdesemanticized
elementsvalid?(Talmy,2000a)
—Canperipheralphenomena(likemeaningfulidiomaticconstructions)
beaccountedforbyassumingthedivisionofthelexiconandsyntax?
