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There are three types of ‘be+to-infinitive’ in English: ‘be to,’ ‘BE TO,’ and ‘is to.’ The differences between these types are fully discussed in this study. They have an apparently identical construction in which the verb ‘be’ is followed by an infinitive, but in fact they have different syntactic and semantic characteristics. Jespersen(1940) classified English infinitives into three ranks: primary, secondary and tertiary. The verb ‘be’ of ‘be to’ is a copula and the infinitive is Jespersen’s primary and so a nominal infinitive clause acting as complement of ‘be.’ There are two kinds of infinitives as Jespersen’s secondary: retroactive and non-retroactive. Korean school grammar has argued and taught that Jespersen’s non-retroactive infinitive of BE TO is a subject complement, and so an adjective equivalent. However, this argument has proved to be untenable. Unlike ‘be to,’ ‘BE TO’ cannot be divided into two units, i.e. the verb ‘BE’ and ‘TO-infinitive.’ The whole ‘BE TO’ as a unit is a modal idiom or quasi-modal referring to the future. The infinitive of ‘is to’ is a retroactive. It is an active infinitive which is said to have a passive meaning, but Jespersen(1940) looks upon the infinitive as active and as governing a preceding item as its object.

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I. 서론
 II. 명사적 부정사
  2.1 계사 be
  2.2 주어-보어 어순 교체가 가능하다.
  2.3 ‘be to’에서 to는 생략할 수 있다.
 III. 형용사적 부정사
  3.1 명사를 후치 수식하는 형용사적 부정사
  3.2 BE TO의 의미와 통사적 특성
  3.3 역급 부정사 ‘is to’
 IV. BE TO는 무엇인가?
  4.1 ‘be to’는 무엇인가?
  4.2 ‘BE TO’는 무엇인가?
  4.3 형용사적 용법 BE TO의 기원
 V. 결론
 Works Cited
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• 조남호 [ Cho, Nahmho | 한국교통대학교 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810