DP in Copular Sentences

• 발행기관: 한국외국어대학교 영미연구소
• 저자명: 박갑용(Kab-Yong Park) 성태수(Tae-Soo Sung)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미연구』제22집, 163~188쪽, 전체 26쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
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• 발행일자: 2010.06.30

영문 초록

This paper claims that there is only one copular verb be and all copular constructions share the same structure. In English, predicational copular sentences and specificational copular sentences show the difference on the basis of whether pre-copula DP Head and post-copula DP Head have [definite] feature or not, driven by semantic properties of the DP HEAD. This argument is distinguished from the two precedent analyses on copular sentences. Heggie (1988), Moro(1977), and Mikkelsen (2005), among others, claim that the specificational copular sentence is an inverse predicational copular sentence, and that the predicational copular sentence and specificational copular sentence involve one and the same be. The other position, including Rothestein (2001), claims that the specificational copular sentence is not derived by inversion. Rothestein (2001) proposes that the specificational copular sentence is a subtype of equative sentences. The specificational copular sentence has the different structure from the predicational copular sentence.

목차

I. Introduction

II. Proposals

III. Types of Copular Sentences

IV. Conclusion

키워드

술어적계사 구문 한정적계사 구문 DP 가설 한정성 predicational copular sentence specificational copular sentence DP hypothesis specificity