本文通过对法语短语“philosophie analytique de l’histoire”中的形容词定语位置的研究,论证了两个问题。第一,生成语言学中对于形容词定语的性质有两套说法:AP中心语(APHead)说和NP指示语(NPSpec)说,而对于上述短语中“ana-lytique”的位置分析则支持了形容词定语为NP指示语的说法。第二,针对法语中形容词定语常出现在所修饰的名词右侧的情况,有名词移动说和直接合并说,上述名词短语中“analytique”的位置支持了名词移动说。但这一移动的深层原因十分复杂。 This article demonstrates two issues by studying the adjective position in the French phrase philosophie analytique de l’histoire. First, there are two sets of theories about the nature of adjectives in generative linguistics: APHead and NPSpec, while the position analysis of “ana-lytique ” is supported in the phrase above Adjectival adverbial NP directives. Second, in view of the fact that adjectival attributives often appear to the right of the modified nouns in French, the nouns are said to move and to be directly combined to say that the position of “analytique ” in the above noun phrase supports nouns shifting. But the underlying causes of this move are complex.