理论与方法专栏 | 句法结构树的顶端
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《理论语言学五道口站》（2022年第48期，总第251期）理论与方法专栏为大家推荐美国麻省理工学院语言学教授Shigeru Miyagawa（宮川繁）的著作：Syntax in the Treetops（《句法结构树的顶端》）。该书已于2022年5月在MIT Press出版。
著作简介
Syntax in the Treetops
《句法结构树的顶端》
Abstract：
In Syntax in the Treetops, Shigeru Miyagawa proposes that syntax extends into the domain of discourse by making linkages between core syntax and the conversational participants. Miyagawa draws on evidence for this extended syntactic structure from a wide variety of languages, including Basque, Japanese, Italian, Magahi, Newari, Romanian, and Spanish, as well as the language of children with autism. His proposal for what happens at the highest level of the tree structure used by linguists to represent the hierarchical relationships within sentences—“in the treetops”—offers a unique contribution to the issue of concern known as “syntacticization of discourse” for cartographic researchers (Cinque & Rizzi 2010, 司富珍 2011, Rizzi & Cinque 2016, Samo & Si 2022).
Miyagawa's main point is that syntax provides the basic framework that makes possible the performance of a speech act and the conveyance of meaning; although the role that syntax plays for speech acts is modest, it is critical. He proposes that the speaker-addressee layer and the Commitment Phrase occur together in the syntactic treetops. In each succeeding chapter, Miyagawa examines the working of each layer of the tree and how they interact.
简介：
Shigeru Miyagawa（宮川繁）在该书中提出，通过建立核心句法和会话参与者之间的联系，句法会扩展到语篇领域。这一观点得到了众多语言（包括巴斯克语、日语、意大利语、马加希语、纽瓦里语、罗马尼亚语和西班牙语）以及自闭症儿童的语言的支持。他研究语言学家们通常用来表征句子内部层级关系的树形结构图的顶端，这一研究对目前句法制图研究者（Cinque & Rizzi 2010, 司富珍 2011, Rizzi & Cinque 2016, Samo & Si 2022）关心的语篇信息句法化论题有独特贡献。
Shigeru Miyagawa（宮川繁）认为句法为言语行为和意义的传达提供了基本框架。尽管句法对言语行为的作用不大，但却是至关重要的，而且句法树的顶端存在“说话者-听话者”层和承诺短语层。在随后的每一章中，作者详细研究了出现在句法树顶端的每一个层级及不同层级之间的关系。
-Shigeru Miyagawa（宮川繁）-
Shigeru Miyagawa（宮川繁），美国麻省理工学院语言学教授，著有《为何移位？为何一致？》 和《超越Φ的一致性》。他还参与了数字学习有关方面的研究。
Shigeru Miyagawa is Professor of Linguistics at MIT and the author of Why Move? Why Agree? and Agreement Beyond Phi. Miyagawa has been involved with many aspects of digital learning at MIT.
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