영어 간접수동 구문의 기원에 대하여

• 영문명: On the Origin of the Indirect Passive
• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: 이필환(Pil Hwan Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제19호, 87~108쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2000.03.01

영문 초록

Despite some controversy, it is generally accepted that the indirect passive construction(IDC) was introduced into English roughly in the 15th century. Then two relevant questions arise here; ‘Why the IDC was impossible in OE?’ and ‘How the IDC could be introduced in the 15th century?’ It is argued that the indirect object of OE need not and so must not be preposed to the subject position to get a case in a passive sentence, since it is inherently case-marked. Thus the impersonal passive construction could be used instead of the IDC in OE and early ME. Contrary to Lightfoot (1979a, 1979b, 1991), however, I argue that even in OE syntactic passives and lexical passives both existed, so two kinds of passive participles are derived, i.e., a neutralized category having the feature [+V] only and a full adjective [+N, +V]. The emergency of the IDC is explained by the loss of the ability of English verbs to assign an inherent case. If the indirect object is not inherently case-marked, it must move to a position where it can get a case, i. e., to the subject position, under the assumption that the passive participle cannot assign a structural case, either. The effacement between dative and accusative or the fixing of word order had only subsidiary effects on the introduction of the IDC. The disappearance of formal distinctions between dative and accusative is just a triggering factor for the loss of inherent case, which is the reason for the introduction of the IDC.

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Abstract

I. 머리말

II. 이중 목적어 구문의 수동화

III. 비인칭 수동문과 간접 수동문

IV. 추상격 이론

V. 맺는 말: 남는 문제점

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