The Aspectual Marker-le in Mandarin Chinese——A Syntactic Approach under the Framework of MP

摘要

时体范畴在现代语言学研究中占有重要地位.由于汉语属于孤立性语言,缺乏词形的曲折变化,因此汉语中的时体研究备受语言学家的关注.本文在乔姆斯基(1995)的最简方案理论指导下,运用特征核查理论,探讨了普通话中"了"这个体标记的句法地位以及它们的句法表现.本文得出结论:汉语中的体标记"了"在最简方案的特征核查理论下可以得到充分的解释.这有力支持了普遍语法中追求解释充分性的科学性,并向构建普遍语法的目标又迈进了一步.%As a subsystem of grammar，the categories of tense and aspect assume a prominent place in modem linguistic theory．Mandarin is a classic example．Drawing on the feature checking theory in the framework of the Minimalist Program，this article adopts a syntactic approach to the aspect marker-le in Mandarin Chinese in order to explain their syntactic status and syntactic behaviors．The research leads to the conclusions that the agpect marker-le in Mandarin can be well explained under the theoretical framework of Minimalist Program,in particular,by applying the feature checking theory．