원문정보
초록
영어
English LIC has its unique syntactic, pragmatic, and discourse-related features, not to mention phonological and prosodic features. This paper mainly deals with syntactic, informational, and discourse-related features in English LIC. English LIC delivers discourse-related information in legitimate syntactic structures. Most of English LIC has either unaccusative or unergative verbs with locational or directional locative PPs. Depending on the kinds of verbs, LIC entails some distinctive syntactic properties, such as long distance agreement and extraposion in PF, but it has null expletive Pro in [Spec, TP] in common. In discourse situations, it is natural for communicators to deploy discoursal information in legitimate syntactic structure. LIC has categorical information structure, so the PP receives hearer-old interpretation and the grammatical subject at the end of the sentences receives hearer-new, focus, interpretation. We have proposed that in LIC, there is null expletive Pro equivalent to there in [Spec, TP] to satisfy EPP. And we have also showed that null expletive Pro in [Spec, TP] is well applied to finite verb agreement, tag questions, PRO-binding, Raising and ECM constructions. In conclusion, we posit that there must be null expletive Pro to satisfy EPP in English locative construction.
목차
II. Theoretical Underpinnings
2.1. Chomsky’s (1999, 2005, 2008) Phase Theory
2.2. Chomsky’s (2005, 2008) Long Distance Agreement
2.3. There-constuction with Unergative Verbs
2.4. Rizzi’s (1997) Split CP Hypothesis
2.5. Information Structure in LIC
III. Derivation of LIC by Phase
3.1. Derivation of Unaccusative LIC by Phase
3.2. Derivation of Unergative LIC by Phase
3.3. Other Examples of Non-Application of EPP
IV. For or Against Null Expletive Pro
4.1. A Refutation to Null Expletive Pro
4.2. Application Null Expletive Pro to LIC
V. Concluding Remarks
Works Cited
Abstract