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1、TheDealsMadeAmongAspsandDsinRelativizationNiinaZhangOct.8,2001zhang@zas.gwz-berlin.de1.IntroductionBianchi(2000)assumesthatinrelativization,theDoftheHeadnominal(relativeD),whichisthenominalrelatedtothegapoftherelativeclause,isincorperatedintotheexternal
2、Dofthehostingnominal.Ontheotherhand,Schmitt(2000:325)studiesthespecificityeffectsofrelativizationandrelatestheeffectstothetenseofrelativeclauses.CompatiblewithKayne(1994),herconclusionarguesforacomplement,ratherthanadjunct,analysisofrelatives.Inthispape
3、r,weshowtheinteractionsamongthespecificityofexternalD,therelativeD,andtheaspectrelationbetweenthematrixandtherelativeclauseinChinese.Relativesaswellasothertypes(AP,NP,DP)ofmodifiersofnominalsinChineseoccurinoneofthetwopositions:theleft-peripheralpositio
4、n,asin(1a),andtheonetotheimmediateleftoftheHeadN,asin(1b).WewillcalltheformerpositionH-posandthelatterL-pos.(1)a.daiyanjingde(na)sangexueshengwearglassesDEthatthreeCLstudent‘(those)threestudentswhowearglasses’b.(na)sangedaiyanjingdexueshengthatthreeCLwe
5、arglassesDEstudent‘(those)threestudentswhowearglasses’Weseein(1)thatthetwopositionsoftherelativesareavailableforbothdefiniteand0indefinitenominals.Bianchi(2000:125-126)claimsthat“therelativeDisunderspecifiedwithrespecttothefeatureofdefiniteness,sothatit
6、isconsistentwitheitheranindefiniteora0definiteexternalD”IftherewerenointeractionbetweentheassumedrelativeDandexternalD,wewouldexpectthatthetwopositionsarealwaysavailable.Thisisnottrue,aswewillshowinthispaper.Wewillshowthatthereisamorphologicalinteractio
7、nbetweenthespecificityoftherelativeDandtheindefiniteexternalD,iftheeventsencodedbythematrixclausecooccurswiththatbytherelativeclause,andthattheinteractionisexhibitedintherestrictiononthepositionoftherelative.Thefactpresentedinthisstudy,namely,theexisten
8、ceoftheinteractionsbetweenthespecificityfeaturesoftheHeadnominalandtheexternalDinrelativization,wouldnotbeexpectedifrelativeclauseswereadjunctsofNP.ThuslikeSchmitt(2000),thefactpresentedherearguesagainsttheNP-adjunctapproachto1Ch