نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 دکترا زبان شناسی همگانی
2 گروه زبان انگلیسی، واحد سقز، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، سقز، ایران
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
One of the universal features of the argument structure is that verbs cannot take more than three arguments: two internal arguments and one external argument. Each additional topic, or each pseudo-argument, is introduced into the structure through syntactic or discursive processes (which may be reversible) rather than by lexical items. This feature is called the Two-Argument Restriction, which is part of the natural property of languages. In this study, we will show that the revised version of Hale and Keyser`s theory can account for the Two-Argument Restriction. We will also show that the Two-Argument Restriction depends on the lack of recursion in lexicon; as a result, natural languages constrain the use of this mechanism to the level of sentences. Therefore, it is argued that the argument structure is built in a cyclic or directional manner without recursion, and recursion in the representation of the argument structure at the sentence level becomes observable.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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