Where are Result Clauses in English?

• 영문명: Where are Result Clauses in English?
• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Jonathan R. White
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제15권 제4호, 511~531쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.12.01

영문 초록

In this paper, I discuss where result clauses are positioned in English sentences. A number of factors affect their position. Firstly there are semantic properties such as scope. If these are the only factors, then we have a compositional structure. This turns out not to be the case, since there is c-command test evidence that the finiteness of the result clause is relevant. Infinitival result clauses are attached lower down than finite ones are. However, the degree word and result clause in narrow-scope readings are part of a constituent, with the former selecting the latter. I therefore propose that covert movement is required to explain the c-command data. With wide-scope readings, on the other hand, the degree word and result clause do not form a constituent. A problem arises with how selection holds, and I propose that covert movement is required.

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Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Semantic factors

3. Testing compositional syntactic structures

4. Constituency, selection and LF

5. Conclusions

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