This article explores the syntax of compound pronouns (e.g. someone, nothing). Several theories of these formatives have been proposed previously (e.g. Kishimoto 2000; Blöhdorn 2009), but most of them fail to account for the fact that compound pronouns behave simultaneously like compounds and phrases. By presenting corpus data of some special coordination and modification patterns of compound pronouns, I argue that they should instead be analysed as compound phrases: constructions which are morphologically compounds, but syntactically phrases. Both features play important roles in determining how compound phrases are modified. Moreover, I propose a modification paradigm based on Larson & Marušič (2004), which classifies common postmodifiers at different levels. Finally, I examine the syntactic behaviour of less frequently used nominal compound pronouns such as nobody, which are supplementary to the phrasal ones.

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英语中的复合代词

本文探讨复合代词的语法（例如某人,没有）。之前已经提出了一些关于这些形式的理论（例如 Kishimoto 2000；Blöhdorn 2009），但其中大多数未能解释复合代词同时表现得像复合词和短语的事实。通过提供复合代词的一些特殊协调和修饰模式的语料库数据，我认为它们应该被分析为复合短语：在形态上是复合词但在句法上是短语的结构。这两个特征在决定如何修改复合短语方面都发挥着重要作用。此外，我提出了一种基于 Larson & Marušič (2004) 的修改范式，它将常见的后修饰符分类为不同级别。最后，我检查了不常用的名词复合代词的句法行为，例如没有人, 是对短语的补充。