아랍어 문장의 이동규칙에 대한 한계교점 연구

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to specify the bounding nodes in Arabic sentence, which is considered as one of the most important local constraints, through the analysis of Wh-movement. The concept of bounding nodes is related to subjacency condition. Subjacency condition is a general constraint on movement rules based on the concept of distances: 'Movement rules cannot be applied across more than two bounding nodes at a time.' The bounding nodes represent a kind of boundary in which a component can skip when applying the movement rule, and restrict ungrammatical movements. The bounding nodes exist in all languages, but differ from language to language. In English, NP, IP, CP, are bounding nodes, while in Arabic, NP, PP, IP, CP are bounding nodes. It should be noted that CP usually acts as a bounding node, but CP in Arabic does not act as a bounding node when the raising verbs come up, and in English, it does not act as a bounding node when verbs such as think, say, consider, suppose etc are used. In this case, wh- movement is permitted. In other word, wh-movement is accepted to move from a source place in IP to a destination place, that is C(complementizer) in the beginning of the sentence over two bounding nodes. The limitation of CP is depend on the syntactical information of the verb, which reflects the universality of languages. Subjacency condition was proposed as a general constraint on the transformation rule in universal grammar, which can be regarded as the most effective constraint that restricts the generation of ungrammatical sentences through free movement.