Another Diachronic Perspective on English Tough-Constructions

• 영문명: Another Diachronic Perspective on English Tough-Constructions
• 발행기관: 한국영어학학회
• 저자명: Gwang-Yoon Goh
• 간행물 정보: 『영어학연구』영어학연구 제16호, 211~223쪽, 전체 13쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2003.12.01

영문 초록

Goh, Gwang-Yoon. 2003. Another Diachronic Perspective on English ToughConstructions. English Language and Linguistics 16. 211-223. Ever since toughconstructions in English began to attract the attention of early transformational grammarians, there has been considerable controversy about the analysis of the syntactic and/or semantic relationship between the tough-subject and the gap in the infinitival phrase/clause. Although the type of approach that assumes no syntactic connectivity has long been favored by current syntactic frameworks, it is not clear whether this type of approach is a truly well-motivated position supported by sufficient empirical evidence. In particular, it has been noted that there is some substantia! evidence both for and against it. This paper attempts to provide a new perspective on the analysis of English tough-constructions by considering the insights from the diachrony of prepositional stranding constructions in the history of English.

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ABSTRACT

1. Introduction

2. Prepositional Stranding in Old English

3. Tough-Constructions in Old English

4. What Diachrony Argues about the Tough-Construction

5. Conclusion

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