영어 총칭문의 화용적 해석

• 영문명: A Pragmatic Interpretation of English Generic Sentences
• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: 오명기(Myung Ki Oh)
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제25호, 191~209쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2001.09.01

영문 초록

This article is about habitual sentences subsumed under generic sentences. The main purpose of this paper is to suggest some pragmatic principles of resolving the semantic ambiguity (kind-habitual reading vs. existential-habitual reading) involved in the interpretation of habitual sentences. I assume that generics or habituality includes a sentential operator which can be expressed as the semantic constraints about habitual sentences. I argue that an adequate interpretation of habitual sentences is not entirely determined by such semantic constraints. I go on to show how the kind-habitual vs. existential-habitual reading ambiguity with respect to habituality can be successfully accounted for within the pragmatic division into ‘given’ and ‘new’ information related to the interpretation of indefinite NPs.

목차

Abstract

1. 서론

2. 문장의 총칭성과 습관성

3. Carlson (1989)의 존재적 습관문 분석

4. 종류 습관문과 존재적 습관문

5. 결론

References

키워드

총칭성 습관성 신정보-구정보 종류-존재적 해석 genericity habituality new and old information kind-habitual reading existential-habitual reading