本文提出证据支持汉英“形义错配句”的差异跟名物化短语的句法性质有关,特别是跟名物化词头的形态有关。在这个基础上,本文论证位于“形义错配句”主语的名物化短语,所包含的动词是空动词,属于深层复指,并非由移位产生。跟汉语允许空动词的情况不同,英语的形态不允许空动词,导致部分“形义错配句”无法形成。 The evidence presented in this paper is related to the difference in the syntactic properties of the nominalized phrases, especially the morphology of the nominalized words. On this basis, this article argues that the nominalized phrases located in the subject of the “mismatched sentences” are empty verbs, which belong to the deep referents and are not generated by the transposition. In contrast to the Chinese case of empty verbs, the English form does not allow empty verbs, resulting in some “wrongly formed sentences” that can not be formed.