Syntactic Variability in Predicate-As Parentheticals

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Eun-Jung Yoo
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제70호, 129~153쪽, 전체 25쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.12.01

영문 초록

Predicate-as Parentheticals exhibit word order variability that interacts with contrastive focus placement on the subject or an adjunct phrase. While Culicover and Winkler (2008) discuss that as-clauses share certain properties with other focus inversion construc- tions, a concrete syntactic analysis of Predicate-as clauses has not been provided in the previous studies in order to explain such word order variations as the auxiliary verb cluster phenomenon. This paper proposes that the complicated word order patterns in Predicate-as clauses be accounted for in terms of a constructional constraint for a focus inversion clause, without changing the basic syntactic and semantic analyses of As-Parentheticals. In our analysis, the focus-inversion-clause construction imposes a constraint on the word order domain, so that word order variability needs not to be directly reflected on the constituent structure of the clause.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Properties of Predicate-As Clauses

3. Previous Approaches

4. Proposal

5. Concluding Remarks

키워드

as-parentheticals predicate-as as-inversion clauses focus inversion constructions word order domain HPSG