A Continuum Approach to English Verbal Affixation

• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Kwang-sup Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제19권 제1호, 1~10쪽, 전체 10쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2009.02.28

영문 초록

This squib provides a continuum approach to English verbal affixation. There are three major approaches to the locus of verbal affixation: the lexical approach, the syntactic approach, and the hybrid approach. First of all, I advocate that the syntactic approach is on the right track, and then makes a generalization that the leftmost verbal affix position is a position for auxiliaries, while the rightmost head position--the passive en--is a position for main Vs. More precisely, I propose that the more leftward a verbal affix occurs, the more likely it is to attract an auxiliary, and the more rightward it occurs, the more likely it is to attract a main V. This continuum approach is based on the idea that there is a fixed position for auxiliary Vs and main Vs: the outer VP-shell is a position for auxiliaries, and the inner VP-shell is a position for main Vs. This paper shows that this continuum approach enables us to explain the idiosyncratic patterns displayed by English verbal affixation.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Affixation of Main Vs and VP-Preposing

3. Affixation of Auxiliaries and VP-Ellipsis

4. Two Contradictory Demands from VP-Preposing and VP-Ellipsis

5. A Continuum Approach

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키워드

English verbal affixation continuum VP-ellipsis VP-preposing syntactic approach