Preposed PPs and Three Types of Clausal Structures in English

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Kwang-sup Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제100호, 145~164쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2018.12.31

영문 초록

propose that English is a subject prominent language. In this paper, however, I propose that English makes use of both subject-predicate and topic-comment structures. More precisely, there are three types of clausal structure in English: subject-predicate, topic-comment, and a combination of both. This is on the basis of the syntactic patterns of preposed PPs. In English there are three types of preposed PPs: referential PPs, locational PPs, and directional PPs. This paper shows that Referential PP Inversion is a Subject- Predicate construction, Directional PP Inversion is a Topic-Comment construction, and Locational PP Inversion is a combination of both.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Structures of the Three Types of Preposed PP

3. Account

4. The Rigidity of the Topic-Comment Structure

5. Summary and Conclusion

키워드

PP subject preposed PP Subject-Predicate Topic-Comment locational PP Subject/Topic prominent