[X and Ⅰ] in Object Position and [me and Ⅹ] in Subject Position

• 영문명: [X and Ⅰ] in Object Position and [me and Ⅹ] in Subject Position
• 발행기관: 한국영어학학회
• 저자명: Pil-Hwan Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『영어학연구』영어학연구 제24호, 217~238쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.12.30

영문 초록

  This article deals with the mismatch between the morphological case form and the grammatical function of an English personal pronoun, especially the objective me appearing in subject position. It is argued that the [me and Ⅹ]Subj./Obj. pattern is produced by the so-called [me and Ⅹ] rule, one of the grammatical virus rules. A virus rule, proposed by Sobin (1994, 1997), is a language-particular rule producing the usage(s) not predicted by the UG system. Along with Sobin’s “...and Ⅰ” rule, the [me and Ⅹ] rule will account for the unexpected case-mismatch phenomena of English personal pronouns. To accommodate the [me and Ⅹ] rule under the notion of grammatical viruses, however, we will revise the notion of a grammatical virus. Our revision is that a grammatical virus rule produces a socially inferior usage and so a virus-infected inferior usage should be cured by the UG system later in an effort for a speaker to get social prestige within a speech community. This revision is opposite to the original notion of grammatical viruses that they produce socially prestigious usages.

목차

1. Introduction
2. Facts to be Explained
3. An Account for the [X and Ⅰ] Construction in Object Position
4. Accounts for the [me and Ⅹ] Construction in Subject Position
5. Concluding Remarks
References

키워드

subjective case objective case grammatical virus default case social prestige