Mixed properties and matching effects in English free relatives: A construction-based perspective

• 발행기관: 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
• 저자명: Jong-Bok Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『언어연구』제34권 제3호, 361~385쪽, 전체 25쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2017.12.30

국문 초록

English free relative clauses display dual properties. In terms of internal syntax, they are sentential, but in terms of external syntax, they behave like nominal expressions. These mixed properties assign many complexities to the constructions. Another intriguing property related to the mixed properties concerns matching and mismatching effects among the categorial information of the free relative, that of the wh-phrase, and the putative gap in the relative. This paper reviews these properties with investigating their authentic uses through the corpus COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English) and then offers a construction-based analysis. The resulting analysis offers a streamlined analysis of English free relatives, avoiding pitfalls that previous analyses often encounter.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Disentangling free relatives from interrogative clauses

3. Nominal and sentential properties

4. Matching effects

5. Mismatches and puzzles

6. Two main previous analyses

7. A construction-based Analysis

8. Conclusion

키워드

mixed properties matching effects free relative construction-based inheritance network