Conative Alternation in English: An Entailment-Based Perspective with Corpus Data

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Jungsoo Kim(김정수)
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제97호, 55~88쪽, 전체 34쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2018.03.30

국문 초록

Previous studies on the English conative alternation have resorted to semantic constraints like “attempt”, “motion”, and “contact” on verbs and have taken Levin’s (1993: 41-42) verb classification about the alternation for granted. This study, based on authentic corpus data extracted from BYU-BNC, shows that simple semantic-constraint-based approaches are insufficient and Levin’s (1993) classification is problematic. In particular, this study shows that the verb classes that participate in the conative alternation in English can be classified in terms of entailments about change, motion, and contact and that some classes and subclasses exhibit idiosyncratic properties which cannot be captured by the previous approaches and Levin’s (1993) classification.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Previous Approaches to the Conative Alternation

3. Verb Classes of the Conative Alternation in English and Their Grammatical Properties

4. Conclusion

키워드

English conative alternation entailment change motion contact corpus data