Approximate Cleft and Its Implication for Copula Overuse

• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Jeong-Shik Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제23권 제3호, 603~614쪽, 전체 11쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.08.31

영문 초록

In this squib, we observe one kind of cleft construction from Korean, which we dub 'Approximate Cleft,' in which copula is added to a normal sentence, and argue that the overused extra copula often found in L1 Korean learners of English can be attributed to L1 transfer of this copula. We claim that the copula in question is neither a topic marker nor an underdeveloped functional category. We also suggest a plausible derivation of a peculiar L2 English where copula appears to directly take the object of the main verb through ellipsis of the sequence containing the main verb and its complement.

목차

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Approximate cleft

3. Analyses

4. Implications

5. Closing Remarks

References

키워드

Approximate Cleft extra copula L1 transfer L2 English