A Lexical-constructional Analysis of the English Get-Passive

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Kyungchul Chang
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제65호, 21~43쪽, 전체 23쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2011.09.01

영문 초록

This article presents a lexical-constructional analysis of the get-passive in English (e.g. Ed got fired). Drawing on standard arguments and evidence, it is argued that the passive is a family of constructions, from idiomatic through two productive types, which are either causative or non-causative. The article proposes an analysis of those three constructions as lexical items. While the idiomatic type is fully listed in the lexicon with a single meaning, the two productive types are templates that are stored in the component with passive get and a constructional meaning. The proposed analysis also has some advantages over previous studies.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Preliminaries

3. Previous Scholarship

4. A Proposal

5. Summary

키워드

lexical-constructional idiomatic/causative/non-causative family of constructions get-passive template constructional meaning