The purpose of this study is to propose that English non-finite clauses including ECM and small clauses(henceforth, SC) have a parallel internal structure with the verbal predication mediated by the copular BE. To support the idea, the English copular verb BE is classified as auxiliary and lexical verbs depending on its syntactic, semantic, and phonetic features, and then the lexical BE is sub-classified into the following two types: be-① and be-②. This paper argues that be-②’s semantic and phonetic features are lost in the process of Grammaticalization with only functional ones left. To consolidate the argument, some empirical evidences are presented from French and Nigerian Edo languages. In the Edo language especially, overt copular particles, whose morphology is totally distinct from its auxiliary BE, must exist in front of the predicate AP or NP whether it is placed in the main or embedded clauses. Based on these specimens, this paper contends that, instead of the functional category, the phonetically null functional element be-② mediates the predication and agreement between English SC subjects and predicates. Therefore, describing the SC complements and ECM as an identical TP structure seems worth pursing in that various English clausal structures can be explained uniformly by the head of T. (Chungnam National University)
목차
Abstract 1. 서론 2. 계사 BE 분석 3. Null BE에 대한 실증적 논증 4. 소절과 예외 격절: TP 5. 결론 참고문헌
키워드
Small clauseECM clauseTPCopular BELexical null BEVerbal predication
한국언어연구학회 [The Korean Association of Language Studies]
설립연도
1996
분야
인문학>언어학
소개
한국언어연구학회는 언어학과 언어교육 분야의 연구를 통하하여 학문의 질적 향상과 국내외 회원 및 학회간의 학술 교류와 친목을 도모한다. 이를 위해 학술 연구 발표회, 강연회, 강습회를 개최하고, 정기학회지, 연구보고서, 서적 등을 간행하며, 그 밖에 지역사회에 필요한 사업과 연구 활동을 수행하는데 중점을 두고 있다.