Parasitic Gap

寄生缺位

A term in later generative grammar for a syntactic gap in a sentence which is possible only because the sentence contains an ordinary gap; it is therefore dependent or ‘parasitic’ upon the ordinary gap.

最近的生成语法用来指句子中的一个句法缺位，它只有在句子包含一个普通缺位时才可存在，因此说它依附于或“寄生”于普通缺位。