Cinque (Linguist Inq 36(3):315–332, 2005; Universals of language today. Springer, Dordrecht, pp 165–184, 2009; Functional structure from top to toe. Vol. 9 of The cartography of syntactic structures. Oxford University Press, New York, pp 232–265, 2014a) observes that there is an asymmetry in the possible ordering of dependents of a lexical head before versus after the head. A reflection on some of the concepts needed to develop Cinque’s ideas into a theory of neutral word order reveals that dependents need to be treated separately by class. The resulting system is applied to the problem of word order in the Germanic verb cluster. It is shown that there is an extremely close match between theoretically derived expectations for clusters made up of auxiliaries, modals, causative ‘let’, a main verb, and verbal particles. The facts point to the action of Cinque’s fundamental left–right asymmetry in language in the realm of the verb cluster. At the same time, not all verb clusters fall under Cinque’s generalization, which, therefore, argues against treating all cases of restructuring uniformly.

中文翻译：

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日耳曼动词群中基本的左右不对称

Cinque (Linguist Inq 36(3):315–332, 2005; Universals of language today. Springer, Dordrecht, pp 165–184, 2009; Functional structure from top to toe. 句法结构制图的第 9 卷。牛津大学Press, New York, pp 232–265, 2014a) 观察到词汇中心的从属词在中心词前后的可能排序中存在不对称性。对将 Cinque 的思想发展为中性词序理论所需的一些概念的反思表明，依赖者需要按类别分开对待。所得系统应用于日耳曼动词集群中的词序问题。结果表明，对由助词、情态、使能“let”、主要动词和动词助词组成的集群的理论推导预期之间存在极其密切的匹配。事实表明五行基本的左右不对称在动词集群领域的作用。同时，并非所有动词簇都属于 Cinque 的概括，因此反对统一对待所有重组情况。