Syntactic Analysis Of "V1+N1(+to)+V2(+N2)" Pattern In English And Chinese

The syntactic analysis of "V1+N1(+to)+V2(+N2)" pattern in English and Chinese in this thesis is carried out within the framework of Minimalist Approach. First,my research is limited to both English and Chinese sentences with the "V1+N1 (+to)+V2(+N2)" pattern and from the semantic point,N1 is the subject of V2.Then, the previous studies are introduced,such as Quirk's,Radford's,Chomsky's,Lasnik & Saito's,Wang Li's and Xing Xin's,etc.After this,the detailed theoretical basis for the thesis is given,including the VP-internal subject hypothesis,VP shell theory and Object agreement projection under the framework of which the relationships between V1 and N1,N1 and "V2(+N2)" are analyzed.Both in English and in Chinese,when N1 is the object of V1,there must be a PRO before "V2(+N2)" because of theθ-criterion.The PRO is the subject of"V2(+N2)" and is controlled by N1.Here V1 is called OC verb.At this time,the PRO moves to spec-IP to be checked by null case to and V1 checks N1's objective case.In English,when N1 is not the object of V1,it is the subject of "V2(+N2)".N1 has to be raised to the spec-AgrOP to get its case checked and V1 here is called Raising verb.At this time,N1 first moves to spec-IP and cannot check its objective case with caseless to,but has to be raised to the spec-AgrOP to get its case checked.In Chinese,when N1 is not the object of V1,it is also the subject of "V2(+N2)".It has to be raised to the spec-IP position to be exceptionally checked by V1 and here V1 is called ECM verb.In this case,N1 first moves to the position of spec-IP,but cannot be checked by caseless to and its objective case can only be exceptionally checked by the preceding verb V1.This research,although not perfect,offers a comparative detailed syntactic explanation for the "V1+N1(+to)+V2(+N2)"pattern in English and Chinese.