The Purpose of this thesis is to prove that dative/accusative subject exhibits behavioral, but not coding, properties in the transition from impersonal to personal constructions. Impersonal constructions have constituted one of the subjects most frequently dealt with in English historical syntax. One of the reasons for this interest is probably that they stand out more than other constructions, since such impersonal constructions had been widely used in early English but completely disappeared at the threshold of the Modern English period and are no longer found in Present-day English. Peter Cole, et al.(1980) examined the historical process of subject development and proposed a three-stage unmarked order of acquisition of subject properties. At an early stage in development of the construction (Stage A), the NP in question displays no subject properties, whether coding or behavioral properties. The coding properties, whether coding or behavioral properties. The coding properties are morphosyntactic properties, e.g. nominative case-marking and control of verb agreement. The behavioral properties are transformational properties, e.g. control of reflexivization. At a later time(Stage B), the analogous NP exhibits behavioral, but no coding, properties. If coding properties are found at any stage, the are acquired subsequent to behavioral properties(Stage C). In general, the nominative case is considered to be a subject in Modern English. This is true for OE too(Denison 1993: 16). Grammatical cases are not identical to grammatical relations. Thus case marking does not determine a grammatical relation. There are three stages in the acquisition of subject properties. Among them, it is the second stage that the NP begins to take on transformational properties associated in the language with subject. Therefore, in this thesis I insist that dative/accusative subject exhibits behavioral in impersonal constructions corresponds to Stage B.
한국중앙영어영문학회 [The Jungang English Language And Literature Association Of Korea]
설립연도
1968
분야
인문학>영어와문학
소개
본 학회는 영미어문학의 학술연구와 이에 부합하는 아래의 사업을 기획 수행하며,
또한 회원 상호간의 친목을 도모함을 목적으로 한다.
1. 학회지 발간
2. 연구 발표회, 강연회, 공동연구
3. 영미어문학 관련 도서출판
4. 영미어문학 관계 도서 및 자료의 모집 및 비치
5. 기타 본회의 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]