The Idiomatic Give-Get Alternation in English: A Parallel-Architecture Approach

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Kyungchul Chang
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제124호, 55~75쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2024.12.31

국문 초록

In English there are idioms that alternate between give and get, as in They gave him the boot (‘They dismissed him’) and He got the boot (‘He was/became dismissed’). They are not isolated but related in terms of the properties they share, such as the same noun phrase(NP) the boot and the verbal meaning ‘to dismiss/to become dismissed’. This paper argues that the two alternantes are better characterised as the level of predicate-argument structure which mediates between semantics and syntax. It suggests that the clause-final NP combines with either of the verbs to form a predicate. The resulting complex predicate is either transitive or intransitive, depending on whether the internal argument is present or absent. Though the former appears syntactically more complex than the latter, both are basically semantic and grammatical units that are internally complex. The paper also offers a unified analysis of the two complex predicate types using the framework of parallel architecture of grammar.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Preliminaries

3. Previous Scholarship

4. Proposal

5. Concluding Remarks

References

키워드

idiomatic give-get alternation predicate-argument structure complex predicate transitive/intransitive parallel architecture of grammar