Constraints on NP-movement in Mandarin Chinese
汉语中名词短语移动的规则
John H-T. Lu 陆孝栋

Abstract 摘要
In this paper we investigate four types of NP-Movement rules in Mandarin Chinese. Our purpose is to find some universal constraint(s) for all four types, so that we can reduce structural description to a minimum. In doing this investigation we apply the Subjacency Condition, the Specific Subject Condition, and the Tensed Sentence Condition which generative linguists for the theory of Government and Binding have been claiming as universal constraints. Our empirical result shows that these constraints are not relevant for the Chinese cases; instead, the A-over-A principle, which is not always observed in English movement rules, has been found to function as a universal constraint for all four types of NP-Movement in Chinese. We also venture our opinion based on these findings.

在本文中，作者调查了汉语中四种不相同的名词移动规则，目的是想找出一些共同必须遵守的原则，籍以减少对个别结构方面的描写。在调查中，我们试用了生成语言学派 (Generative Linguistics) 认为必须遵行的三个普遍条件，也就是同层次或次层次条件 (the Subjacency Condition), 特殊主词条件 (the Specific Subject Condition), 时态句子条件 (the tensed Sentence Condition)。根据调查结果，我们发现这三个条件都不适用于中文，相反地，在英语中并不是受到普遍遵守的相同词类原则 (the A-over-A principle) 却一致地适用于汉语中各种名词移动规则。作者在结论一章中，就调查结果对目前盛行的语言学理论表示了他的看法。

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