A Causation-based Approach to Resultatives

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: 이상근(Sang-Geun Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제55호, 119~140쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2009.03.01

영문 초록

Resultatives have been defined mainly either by a syntactic restriction such as the Direct Object Restriction (DOR) or a semantic feature such as telicity. Based on the causation-based approach, I show that the construction of resultatives accommodates the result phrase (XP) with a causative interpretation in two distinctive ways, and suggest that the concept of (in)direct causation plays a key role in the linguistic coding and individuation of causal events. It gives a natural account for the reason that the unsaturated result phrase subcategorized by the transitive verb should be analyzed as bare while the saturated result phrase not subcategorized by the unergative verb should be analyzed as clausal with a logical subject position filled up.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Neither DOR Nor Telicity

3. The Individuation of Events of Resultatives

4. A Causation-based Approach

5. Conclusion

키워드

events resultative constructions (in)direct causation DOR telicity