Grammatical Aspect and the Extensionality of English Argument-taking Derived Nominals

• 영문명: Grammatical Aspect and the Extensionality of English Argument-taking Derived Nominals
• 발행기관: 한국영어학학회
• 저자명: Sang-Geun Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『영어학연구』영어학연구 제24호, 239~258쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.12.30

영문 초록

  The main goal of this paper is to show that the semantic concept of events is taken not as primitive but as derived from aspect in the nominal syntax (as well as in the sentential syntax). By appealing to the two-component theory of aspect (Comrie 1976, Smith 1991, Cowper 1999 among others), I claim that the extensionality of English argument-taking derived nominals arise from the Latinate nominalizing suffix that functions to provide a grammatical aspect, perfectivity. In this view, nominalization in English is understood as a neutralizing process taking the intensional property of events (denoted by root verbs or verbal nouns) and extensionalizing it in the nominal syntax.

목차

1. Introduction
2. The extensionality of English argument-taking derived nominals
3. Grammatical aspect and the extensionality of events
4. The perfectivity of Latinate nominalizing suffixes in English
5. A DP analysis
6. Concluding remarks
References

키워드

lexical and grammatical aspect intensionality extensionality argument-taking derived nominals nominalizing suffixes