Comparative Deletion Constructions in English: A Construction-Based Approach

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Chan Chung Jong-Bok Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제63호, 47~71쪽, 전체 25쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2011.03.01

영문 초록

English displays a variety of complex properties in comparatives. In particular, it employs three main types of comparatives: comparative total-deletion (CTD), comparative subdeletion (CSD), partitive comparative deletion (PCD). In this paper, we first look into the grammatical properties of these three types of comparatives in English and provide a construction-based perspective with the mechanism of inheritance. This perspective, allowing us to tease part the similarities and differences among the three types of comparatives, can provide us a reasonable way to explain the phenomena in question.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Comparative Total-Deletion vs. Comparative Subdeletion

3. A Construction-based Perspective

4. Conclusion

키워드

comparative deletion comparative subdeletion partitive deletion construction-based