An NP Matching Analysis for Tough Constructions in English

• 영문명: An NP Matching Analysis for Tough Constructions in English
• 발행기관: 한국영어학학회
• 저자명: 박명관(Myung-Kwan Park)
• 간행물 정보: 『영어학연구』제28권 3호, 19~37쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2022.12.31

영문 초록

Pitting three possible accounts for tough constructions, this paper advocates an NP matching analysis for them. Considering parasitic gap licensing, prohibited movement of the first object with double objects, and illegitimate extraction out of VP in tough infinitives leads to rejecting the traditional A-movement analysis for the construction at issue. (Anti-)reconstruction effects on anaphors, bound variable pronouns, idioms, R-expressions, and quantifiers provide testing grounds in comparing NP sub-extraction and NP matching analyses of tough constructions, eventually arguing that the latter is a valid one. The impossibility of extraposing tough infinitives is shown to follow from the clitic property of an Acc Case-bearing null operator rather than to argue for the NP sub-extraction analysis for tough constructions.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Tough Infinitives Contain An A’-trace

3. (Anti-)Reconstruction

4. Bringing in a Verdict

5. Conclusion

References

키워드

tough constructions A-movement NP sub-extraction NP matching extraposition