On the Intensionality of Korean Possessive Verbal Nouns

• 영문명: On the Intensionality of Korean Possessive Verbal Nouns
• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Sang-Geun Lee(이상근)
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제17권 제4호, 581~604쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.11.30

영문 초록

  Taking the two-component theory of aspect, where Smith (1991) distinguishes grammatical aspect ((im)perfectivity) from lexical aspect (Aktionsart), I propose that intensionality of events (denoted by Korean possessive verbal nouns) arises from their lexical aspect that indicates what part of and how the internal temporal development of an event would unfold in time. Drawing on the asymmetric distribution in some extensional contexts including the genuine perception verb see, which has been known to select for events as its complements (Higginbotham 1983, 1985), I reveal that Korean possessive verbal nouns are characterized by their lexical aspect while English argument-taking derived nominals by their grammatical aspect. They should not be comprised into the same group of complex event nominals, contra Grimshaw (1990), Jung (1997) and Miyamoto (1999). I further claim that it is the intensional or hypothetical nature of the lexical aspect that leads Korean possessive verbal nouns to be interpreted as intensional. I provide a bare nominal structure for the intensionality of Korean possessive verbal nouns, to show that the intensionality of events can be encoded in the nominal syntax, though many of the traditional studies on intensionality have been directed to individuals and propositions.

목차

1. Introduction
2. Korean possessive VNs vs. English argument-taking DNs
3. The intensionality of Korean possessive VNs as lexical inherent
4. A syntactic analysis of Korean possessive VNs
5. Further consequences
6. Concluding remarks
References

키워드

Korean possessive verbal nouns English argument-taking derived nouns lexical aspect grammatical aspect intensionality extensionality