論日語輕動詞結構的語音──邏輯形式不對稱

On PF-LF Mismatch in the Japanese Light Verb Construction

本文主張日語輕動詞結構的異位轉化分析，指出其名詞組補語構成邏輯階層而非語音階層，因而只適用邏輯介面轉化而非語音介面轉化。本文還提出格位範域合併的看法，規定該合併機制必須發生於多重格位範域交錯的句法結構，並且合併運作本身也得受階層阻擋條件的限制。上述分析可以一清二楚的說明何以從論旨架構的角度，輕動詞結構的論元是出現於名詞詞組內部，而從格位架構的角度，其論元則是分布於名詞詞組外部。這樣的詮釋也同時與日語輕動詞結構的各類屬性相互呼應，例如外在論元的格位標示，作格限制，居中代名詞認可等句法現象。本文的看法如果是正確的，主張句法賓語可在單一介面轉換的異位轉化則獲得進一步的論證。

This paper proposes a non-simultaneous Transfer analysis of the light verb construction in Japanese; the nominal phrase complement of a light verb functions as an LF-phase but not as a PF-phase, and thus only undergoes LF-Transfer but not PF-Transfer. I also propose “case domain fusion,” arguing that when more than one case domain overlaps, “case domain fusion” must take place, where the notion of “case domain” is regulated by the Phase Impenetrability Condition. The proposed analysis straightforwardly accounts for a paradoxical PF-LF mismatch in argument linking which the light verb construction exhibits; the arguments in the light verb constructions stay within nominal phrases from the θ-theoretic point of view, whereas they may be outside nominal phrases from the Case-theoretic point of view. It is also shown that our analysis accommodates various properties of the light verb construction in Japanese like Case marking of an external argument, the ergativity constraint, licensing of indeterminate pronouns, resistance of “bare” verbal nouns to XP operations, the double-o constraint, and the distribution of genitive case marked elements. If the proposed analysis is on the right track, it presents evidence for the view of non-simultaneous Transfers, where a syntactic object can be transferred to a single interface during a derivation.