The Clause Structure in Old English on Ontological Minimalism

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: KimDae Ik
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제18호, 1~20쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 1999.12.01

영문 초록

I will argue that based on ontological minimalism the clause structure of OE is the same as that of modern English except the position of modal verbs and auxiliary verbs and show that the V2 constraint of OE is motivated by T feature of C suggested by Pesetsky & Torrengo (1999) and topicalization to CP Spec. In subordinate clause of OE there is no T-to-C by the presence of a lexical element in C. So it is argued that inflectional verbal morphology shows the combination of an either operation V-to-T or T-to-V in the subordinate clause of OE where the word order seems not to be definable by just observing the position of verbs.

목차

Abstract

I. Introduction

II. Old English as SVO

III. The Clausal structure of Old English

IV. Language Changes

V. Conclusion

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