The Diachronic Change of Locative Inversion in English

• 영문명: The Diachronic Change of Locative Inversion in English
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: Sangsoo Park
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제86호, 201~220쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2008.03.30

영문 초록

  The derivation of locative inversion constructions (LICs) is triggered by the thematic focalization of a locative PP in terms of locative inversion (LI) with verb second movement (V-2), residual V-2 or without V-2 from diachronic perspective. Although LICs between OE/EME and PDE are similar to each other in configuration, it appears that the internal structure of OE/EME may or may not be distinctive from that of PDE concerning V-2. Given that OE and EME were analyzed as C-oriented languages, whereas PDE are analyzed as a T-oriented language, the syntactic operation of V-2 for the derivation of LICs was applied in the functional head Focus before the fifteenth century, whereas it is applied in Focus or may be applied in T after the fifteenth century. Such evidence as this in PDE is proved by the thematic focalization of a locative PP that seems to undergo either A"-movement or A-movement in the process of feature Agree and the subsequent internal Merge of a locative PP by EPP. This means that LI in PDE reveals the syntactic properties of a C-oriented language or those of a T-oriented language in the derivational process of LICs. Therefore, if the LI of PDE is the same as that of OE/EME, it is analyzed as residual V-2, but if it isn"t, it is analyzed as non-V-2.

목차

Ⅰ. Introduction
Ⅱ. LI in OE and EME
Ⅲ. The syntactic properties of LI in PDE
Ⅳ. The derivation of LI constructions in PDE
Ⅴ. Concluding remarks
References
Abstract

키워드

feature Agree focalized constituent focus phrase layered CP locative inversion thematic focalization V-2 unaccusative verb