English Get-Passive Constructions

• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Jong-Bok Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제22권 제2호, 437~457쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.05.31

영문 초록

The get-passive in English appears to be free variation with the be-passive in terms of propositional meaning. The former, however, displays quite distinctive grammatical properties from the latter in many respects. This paper reviews some grammatical properties of the get-passive construction and discusses the corpus findings of the data in question, focusing on the contemporary American English. The corpus search shows us that the choice of the get-passive depends not only on the dynamic properties of the main verb alone but also on the tight interactions among various grammatical components including the subject’s animacy and its responsibility, eventuality type, and speaker’s perspective. Pointing out the fact that the recent increase in its usages also reflects social changes, the paper also suggests tight syntactic and semantic links between the intransitive get-passive and transitive get-passive.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Basic Properties of the Get Passive

3. Corpus Findings

4. Relatedness Among the Five Types

5. Conclusion

References

키워드

corpus-based affectedness cause-relation resultant state grammatical interface