Some Remarks on the VP-Dislocation Analysis of English VP-Fronting

• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Gui-Sun Moon
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제28권 제1호, 233~251쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2018.02.28

영문 초록

The paper begins with introduction of the properties of VPF such as connectivity, reconstruction, strong island effects, etc. Then Ott’s dislocation analysis of VPF analogous to the DP-Left-Dislocation construction is reviewed employing three striking strategies: (i) postulation of pro-VP null that in the host clause (ii) bi-clausal structure parallel to each other (iii) ellipsis approach to the external clause. I investigate the pros and cons of the VP-dislocation analysis, and address strong points in comparison with the traditional movement analysis, arguing that the VP-dislocation analysis is superior to the movement analysis in explaining the auxiliary doubling phenomenon. I point out shortcomings with the dislocation analysis: It is demonstrated that the VP-dislocation approach to VPF cannot explain the tense-doubling effect, allows to elide non-constituents in the external clause, and also suffers somewhat from examples exhibiting strong island sensitivity due to the nominal-gap requirement which can cause inconsistency in the analysis. I claim that the semantic type mismatch arises in the VPF construction according to the VP-dislocation analysis. I thus suggest the necessity of a more refined formulation in order to obtain mutual entailment relationship between propositions of the two clauses in the VPF construction.

목차

1. Introduction

2. The Properties of VP-Fronting

3. VP-Fronting as VP-Dislocation

4. Conclusion

키워드

VP-fronting connectivity reconstruction strong island effect dislocation analysis DP-Left-Dislocation pro-VP null that bi-clausal structure, ellipsis auxiliary doubling tense-doubling