Syntactic Differences of Plurality Markers

• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: Joh Yoon-kyoung
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제98호, 221~238쪽, 전체 18쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2011.03.30

영문 초록

There are two crucial syntactic differences found among plurality markers. Dependent plurals and anti-quantifiers work at the phrasal level as opposed to ordinary plurals that apply to the lexical level. More specifically, ordinary plurals are adjoined to the X level while anti-quantifiers attach to the full-fledged XP level. Dependent plurals, however, have the in-between status syntactically and combine with the X'-structure. Another difference is found between ordinary plurals and dependent plurals, on the one hand, and anti-quantifiers, on the other, in the respect that the former is a morpheme while the latter is a phrase that can take its own complement. These different statuses seem to account for why plural forms are intrinsically ambiguous whereas anti-quantifiers are unambiguously more expressive in their semantics as well as in their syntax than ordinary plurals and dependent plurals.

목차

I. Introduction

II. The Semantic Uniformity of Plurality Markers

III. Syntactic Differences of Plurality Markers

IV. Conclusion

키워드

ordinary plurals dependent plurals anti-quantifiers plurality markers distributive particles