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Many scholars have claimed that constituent ordering is dependent on either syntactic complexity or information status, but very few have made a comparison of the two factors. The purpose of this study is to show that both factors influence ordering. Specifically it shows that inversion in English can be regarded as being motivated by both relative syntactic weight and relative information status and that there is a correlation between them. The data used for this study are English inversion constructions found in ICE-GB. This study uses a word-counting metric to investigate syntactic weight, and a given-new pair to investigate information status. The results of this study confirm that, most tokens are post-heavy and post-new. The new elements tend to be complex, but the given ones tend to be simple. Inversion serves to maintain the relative information status, where the newer information is presented at the end of the sentence. Similarly, inversion serves to maintain the distribution of syntactic weight in which the heavier elements are delayed to the end of the sentence. This study concludes that both syntactic complexity and information status are equally influential in constituent ordering in English inversion constructions

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Abstract
 1. 서론
 2. 도치 구문의 통사적 분류와 유발 요인
  2.1. 도치 구문의 통사적 분류
  2.2. 도치 구문의 유발 요인
 3. 연구 방법 및 결과
  3.1. 연구 방법
  3.2. 문어 자료와 구어 자료에서의 도치 분포와 비율
  3.3. 통사적 분류에 따른 도치 분포와 비율
  3.4. 상대적 복잡성과 상대적 정보성
  3.5. 상대적 복잡성과 상대적 정보성의 상관관계
 4. 결론
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통사적 복잡성 정보성 구정보 신정보 단어 계산 미터법 ICE-GB 코퍼스 syntactic complexity information status given information new information word-counting metric ICE-GB corpus

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• 이희정 [ Hee-Jung Lee | 부산대학교 ]
• 안동환 [ Dong-hwan An | 부산대학교 ]

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