This article explores the exact meaning of "ergative" which has been used differently by many linguists. As the purpose of Chomskyan generative-grammar and the recent minimalist program is to develop the Universal Grammar for all types of languages in the world, it is very essential to define the exact meaning of "ergative". Moreover, as there exist the mixed systems of Erg/Abs and Nom/Acc such as Kartvelian and Dyirbal, it is more important to make the meaning of the ergative clear. In this article we propose that the Exceptional Case Marking constructions and the "force-type verbs" constructions in English show the syntactic ergativity. These sentences have ergative syntax working in terms of an S/O pivot. For these sentences two clauses may only be joined in a coordinate structure if they share an NP which is in S or O function in each clause. In discussing the ergativity, we could define English as having syntactic ergativity. Some may assert that English does not have ergativity. But it could be too rash to conclude that English has no ergativity. We only need some more time to find out new English syntactic ergative constructions which have been unknown to us.
목차
Ⅰ. 서론 Ⅱ. 능격에 대한 논의 Ⅲ. 영어의 어휘적 능격성 Ⅳ. 영어의 통사적 능격성 V. 결론 Works Cited ABSTRACT
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]