| 英文摘要 |
In several recent talks given at the University of Florida, John R. Ross, the linguist who was responsible for the fashionable term 'category squish' in the early 70's, examined certain types of syntactic variation in English to determine what underlying principles might govern such alternations. One of his findings was that the shorter version usually, though not always, possesses the property of immediacy (whether physical in terms of time and space or conceptual in terms of abstract notions). The examples that he gave to illustrate the underlying principle are in (1) and (2). |
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