English Verb Movement

• 영문명: English Verb Movement
• 발행기관: 영미어문학회
• 저자명: 이광호(Kwangho Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학연구』영미어문학연구 제20집 2호, 107~118쪽, 전체 12쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2004.08.01

영문 초록

I argue that Chomsky's (1993) Minimalist approach faces a problem in accounting for English verb movement, even though it can account for French verb movement. English verb movement might be dealt with in terms of the principle of Laziness (Chomsky 1991). However, it is not a principled but a stipulative account, which may as well be replaced with more principled explanation, since tre Laziness Principle is not used in accounting for other syntactic phenomena except for English verb movement. English and French verb movement is not clearly dealt with even within Chomsky's (1999, 2000, 2001) recent framework of tre Minimalist approach even though he suggests that verb movement might be a PF phenomenon. I argue that English verb movement can be explained in a principled way in terms of the LF cycle, which is independently motivated, within Chomsky's (1993) framework. Also I suggest that English and French verb movement can be explained well in terms of PF affixation with the assumption of a distinction in the strength of V-features between English and French Ts, assuming the clausal structure suggested in Chomsky (1995).

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ABSTRACT

Ⅰ. Introduction

Ⅱ. English and French Verb Movement

Ⅲ. Verb Movement in terms of LF Cycle

Ⅳ. Verb Movement in terms of PF Affixation

Ⅴ. Conclusion

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