論漢語中比較刪略結構是否存在之證據

On Arguments against Comparative Deletion in Mandarin

本文探討漢語中帶「比」字比較句的句法結構；討論的焦點為「刪略分析」在分析帶「比」字比較句時所遇到的問題。本文指出，若在帶「比」字比較句中，將「比」所帶的補語視為小句（small clause），文獻中所提出的「刪略分析」所遇到的問題，將可獲得解釋。

In this paper, I discuss some arguments presented in the previous research against the deletion-based account (i.e., the Reduction Analysis) of the Mandarin bǐ-comparative, which include the lack of the subcomparative, the lack of the embedded standard, and the distribution of the quantificational adverb dōu in this construction. Working with an Agree-based theory of selection and a featural account of PF-deletion, I show that a deletion-based account does capture these facts. The proposal is built on the assumptions that i) deletion may rescue some illegitimate representations caused by uninterpretable features at PF (Wurmbrand 2014; see also Merchant 2009; Bošković 2011;and others) and ii) the bǐ-constituent contains a small clause (i.e., vP) and lacks all the higher functional clausal heads (e.g., T, Asp, Mod, etc.) (cf. Pancheva 2006) .