假设是人类语言重要的语法范畴,虽然假设句只出现在分句中,但从句法上看,假设特征必须通过移位、添加假设标记、重叠等句法手段,在句子的句首、谓头、句尾三个句法敏感位置实例化,在句子的表层结构得到体现,因此假设范畴是一种全句性功能范畴;假设特征能够促使结构转换为句子,与其他句子功能互补分布;假设特征符合句子功能的判定标准,是典型的句子功能。
Hypothesis is an important grammatical category in human language. Although hypothetical sentence only appears in the clause,the assumptive features can only be reflected in the surface structure of a sentence in the three syntactic sensitive locations——the beginning of a sentence,the predicate head,the sentence end through different syntactic means such as shifting of sentence sequence,adding hypothesis signs,overlaping,etc. The hypothesis category,therefore,is a kind of complete sentence functional category. The assumptive features can facilitate the conversion of a structure into a sentence,and perform a complementary function with other sentences. Judging by the criteria of the sentence function,assumptive features perform the typical sentence function.