The English Tag Question:

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Sung shim Hong Jae keun Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제92호, 55~83쪽, 전체 29쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2017.01.01

영문 초록

Being a rare form of sentence formation, not many languages seem to have Tag question constructions as English does (Culicover 1992:193). Besides, Cuenca (1997:4) notes that the English Tag question construction has received less and less attention in the later period of generative syntax, due to the colloquial characteristics of the construction. Of the two major distinct approaches to English Tag question constructions including Mono-clausal approaches such as Klima (1964), Arbini (1969), and den Dikkien (1995), and bi-clausal approaches such as Huddleston (1969), Culicover (1992), McCawley (1998), and Sailor (2009), the current paper proposes a Minimalist approach to Tag Question Construction using a series of Head movement, Focalization of vP, a Polarity reversing functional projection, PolP, which contains an abstract morpheme [NEG], and adjunction mechanism. Through these thorough and meticulous steps, the English Tag question construction receives a Minimalist facelift.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Syntactic Properties of English Tag Questions

3. Toward a Solution: Non-Elliptical Approach with PolP

4. Conclusion

References

키워드

tag question bi-clausal mono-clausal Polarity Phrase Copying phi-features partial feature movement