现代汉语名词短语结构研究述评

摘要

在生成语法学界,名词短语的分析经历了从NP分析到DP分析的过程.而由于汉语区别于印欧语的种种特点,使得汉语的分析多多少少与印欧语有所差异.从20世纪80年代开始,汉语名词短语的结构经历了从简到繁(从[NP]到[DP [NumP [CLP[NP]]]])、从单一结构到多个结构的过程.在此过程中,学者们一方面是更加重视结构对语言事实的解释力,另一方面则是更加注重结构构拟的理据性.而随着新的结构被提出,一些新的问题也渐渐冒出,指导着结构的进一步完善.%Noun phrases have undergone the transition from the NP analysis to DP analysis in the circles of generative grammar.And because of a variety of different properties between Chinese and Indo-European languages, the analysis of Chinese noun phrases is bound to vary from the latter.From the beginning of 1980s, the structure of noun phrases has experienced a process from simple to complex (i.e., from [NP] to [DP [NumP [CLP [NP]]]]), and from single structure to multiple structures.During this process, on the one hand, the scholars are more emphasis on how to explain the behaviors of noun phrases from the structures;on the other hand, they are more focused on the motivation of the constructing.As the new structures come up, some new problems are also brought out, which guide us to perfect the structures in turn.