談「的」短語與數詞的關係

On quantified DE phrases

湯廷池（1979）發現當「的」短語（某成份+的+名詞）的「的」前成份是動詞+賓語時，不定數詞如許多、很多不能出現在該核心名詞前。本文根據湯廷池的看法，進一步探討，發現當「的」前成份是形容詞、或一般名詞時也有同樣的現象。本研究主要在了解不定數詞當在核心名詞前時和「的」前成份的關係，本文發現當「的」前成份指涉明確時，不定數詞則可出現於「的」之後，也就是核心名詞前。

Tang(1979) found that in a DE（的）phrase (XP+DE+NP), a quantifier is not al-lowed to occur before the head noun (the position after DE) if the phrase before DE is a combination of verb+object. In this paper I further examine this issue. I have discovered that when the XP is a common noun or an adjective, it disallows a quantifier occurring before a head noun of a DE construction. The paper aims to find out the relationship between the XP and the post DE position quantifier. The study concludes that when the reference of an XP is specific, it allows a quantifier to occur before the head noun; if the reference of an XP is not specific, it does not allow a quantifier to occur before the head noun.