从"事实"与元现象看英语补语小句递归性

系统功能语法创始人Halliday认为Brutus says that Caesar was ambitious.一类句子中补语小句属于主从递归,另一些学者主要通过摒弃Halliday线性/嵌入的二分而将其定义为嵌入递归。如果依循Halliday线性/嵌入二分的分析,可以发现其论述至少存在操作上不充分、及物性分析缺乏统一性和嵌入/主从区分不明确3个问题,而这主要源于其对“事实”和元现象不明确的区分;实际上,“事实”和元现象有足够的理由被视为同一概念,这样该类补语小句在并列主从/嵌入二分前提下归为嵌入结构,在作为简单句的被嵌入句中充当了参与者角色。

"Fact" and Metaphenomenon: the Recursion of That-Clause Revisited

This paper attempts to reconsider the recursion of a type of that-clause,which is one of the constructions in the centre of controversy concerning recursive types within systemic functional linguistics.In doing so,the present study unsettles Halliday' analysis by following his basic spirits and principles.It is argued that "fact" and metaphenomenon should be treated as one and the same concept,and that the that-clause under discussion involves embedding rather than hypotaxis,serving as a participant in the clause in which it is embedded.