Tsing Hua Theoretical Linguistics 2
「清華理論語言學研討會」第二次會議
上午
10:00-11:30
吳曉虹（國立師範大學）
"On the (non-)existence of V-stranding ellipsis"
摘要：
Research on verb-raising languages like Hebrew, Irish and Swahili has demonstrated that a verb that has raised to a higher functional head can license ellipsis of the predicate phrase (Goldberg 2005). This sort of “VP ellipsis in disguise” has been extensively discussed in Chinese, Japanese and Korean linguistics; however, no common understanding has been achieved yet. In this talk I will address this issue and go over the arguments for and against the existence of V-stranding ellipsis in these three East-Asian languages.
下午
13:30-15:00
沈 力（日本京都同志社大學）
"用GIS手段解讀混合方言的成因—以呂太接壤地區為例"
摘要：
我们知道语言的分布不是静态的，因为任何语言都具有扩散性。柳田国男(1930)、柴田武(1969)等按照日语方言的分布实事提出了方言周圈扩散的假说。也就是说，在某几个方言依次分布为A-B-C状的情况下，如果B方言为中心方言的话，那么周边的两个方言一定会部分地继承B方言的原始特征（b），见下模式1：
模式1
周边方言A（b）
中心方言B
周边方言C（b）
模式1从日本的方言事实方面得以证实。我们说方言的分布特征是多样的，即使某几个方言同样依次分布为A-B-C状的话，也有一种相反的可能性。也就是说，如果周边的两个方言为中心方言的话，那么中间的B方言会呈现出什么情形呢？可惜的是先前研究没有进一步做出考证。我们提出中间的B方言会保存周边两个中心方言的混合形式，形成“堆积岩”式的方言岛(a-c)，见模式2：
模式2
中心方言A
混合方言岛B（a-c）
中心方言C
我们这项研究的目的就是论证模式2的假设是成立的。具体的内容是：通过用GIS的手段对该地区606个村落的地理特点进行调查分析，①描述山西省吕太接壤地区的方言在音韵上同时继承了南北两大盆地的语音特征，②描绘出混合方言岛的消长的途径。
15:30-17:00
薛芸如（元智大學）
"Boundedness and Temporal Properties of Mandarin Predicates"
摘要：
In this work, I relate the incompleteness effect of the aspectual marker le1 in Mandarin to the boundedness of the sentence. The aspectual marker le1, considered as a perfective marker, selects a dynamic verb as complement and serves to assert the realization of the descriptive content of the sentence. Specifically, it marks the completion or attainment of the endpoint of the a sentence if the sentence denotes a bounded situation, but not otherwise. If the denoted situation is not temporally bounded, the incompleteness of le1 can be remedied by a quantifier providing a temporal boundary at different syntactic levels, e.g. a quantified NP within VP, an event quantifier at vP, or a temporal expression adjoined to TP. A sentence with an inherent or natural endpoint, however, doesn't need any quantification modification when the verb is marked by le1, since boundedness is obtained independently. This theory will then provide a supplementary explanation to the observations demonstrated by Tsai (2008).
上午
10:00-11:30
吳曉虹（國立師範大學）
"On the (non-)existence of V-stranding ellipsis"
摘要：
Research on verb-raising languages like Hebrew, Irish and Swahili has demonstrated that a verb that has raised to a higher functional head can license ellipsis of the predicate phrase (Goldberg 2005). This sort of “VP ellipsis in disguise” has been extensively discussed in Chinese, Japanese and Korean linguistics; however, no common understanding has been achieved yet. In this talk I will address this issue and go over the arguments for and against the existence of V-stranding ellipsis in these three East-Asian languages.
下午
13:30-15:00
沈 力（日本京都同志社大學）
"用GIS手段解讀混合方言的成因—以呂太接壤地區為例"
摘要：
我们知道语言的分布不是静态的，因为任何语言都具有扩散性。柳田国男(1930)、柴田武(1969)等按照日语方言的分布实事提出了方言周圈扩散的假说。也就是说，在某几个方言依次分布为A-B-C状的情况下，如果B方言为中心方言的话，那么周边的两个方言一定会部分地继承B方言的原始特征（b），见下模式1：
模式1
周边方言A（b）
中心方言B
周边方言C（b）
模式1从日本的方言事实方面得以证实。我们说方言的分布特征是多样的，即使某几个方言同样依次分布为A-B-C状的话，也有一种相反的可能性。也就是说，如果周边的两个方言为中心方言的话，那么中间的B方言会呈现出什么情形呢？可惜的是先前研究没有进一步做出考证。我们提出中间的B方言会保存周边两个中心方言的混合形式，形成“堆积岩”式的方言岛(a-c)，见模式2：
模式2
中心方言A
混合方言岛B（a-c）
中心方言C
我们这项研究的目的就是论证模式2的假设是成立的。具体的内容是：通过用GIS的手段对该地区606个村落的地理特点进行调查分析，①描述山西省吕太接壤地区的方言在音韵上同时继承了南北两大盆地的语音特征，②描绘出混合方言岛的消长的途径。
15:30-17:00
薛芸如（元智大學）
"Boundedness and Temporal Properties of Mandarin Predicates"
摘要：
In this work, I relate the incompleteness effect of the aspectual marker le1 in Mandarin to the boundedness of the sentence. The aspectual marker le1, considered as a perfective marker, selects a dynamic verb as complement and serves to assert the realization of the descriptive content of the sentence. Specifically, it marks the completion or attainment of the endpoint of the a sentence if the sentence denotes a bounded situation, but not otherwise. If the denoted situation is not temporally bounded, the incompleteness of le1 can be remedied by a quantifier providing a temporal boundary at different syntactic levels, e.g. a quantified NP within VP, an event quantifier at vP, or a temporal expression adjoined to TP. A sentence with an inherent or natural endpoint, however, doesn't need any quantification modification when the verb is marked by le1, since boundedness is obtained independently. This theory will then provide a supplementary explanation to the observations demonstrated by Tsai (2008).