An Information Structure Approach to Individual- and Stage-level Predicates

• 발행기관: 한국영어학학회
• 저자명: Sang-Geun Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『영어학연구』영어학연구 제16권 1호, 205~224쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2010.04.01

영문 초록

Based on the observation that the distinction of stage-level and individual-level predicates is determined not solely by lexical properties but also by pragmatic factors, contra Kratzer (1989) and Diesing (1992), I suggest reviving a unified topical structure, in which categorical and thetic statements are both analyzed as having topics, i.e., individual topics and event topics. It turns out that the unified topical structure provides a more flexible tool for us to explain some exceptional behaviors of stage-level and individual-level predicates.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Information Structure and Two Types of Statements

3. What Sorts of Things Can Be Topics?

4. “Topichood” and Relativized Mapping Hypothesis

5. Concluding remarks

키워드

stage-/individual-level predicates events thetic/categorical statements topichood