英語における半指示的述語:Some Predicates Fake Their Way into Positions
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The notion of 'semi-referential predicate' is explored, investigating the similarities and differences between the way-construction and the fake object resultative construction. The term 'semi-referential predicate' is adopted to represent a class of English nominals that behave like predicates, as they take a located entity as an argument, and like arguments/referential expressions, as they can refer to an abstract region in space or time. The noun way in the way-construction and the reflexive object oneself in the fake object resultative construction are analyzed as instances of semi-referential predicates. The subjects of these constructions serve as arguments for those semi-referential predicates, providing referential information for which they are inherently underspecified. In addition, the path/result expressions in these constructions are employed to fully specify the region to which those predicates refer. This compositionally specified region is in turn qualified for 'measuring out' an event with respect to telicity in event structure. Thus, from an informational perspective, the full-fledged complex of semi-referential predicate with its referential antecedent and the path/result expression that follows is able to function as a MEASURE argument in event structure, while due to the lack of full referentiality, the semi-referential predicate itself tends to behave as an adjunct rather than an argument in syntactic structure. Some differences between the way-construction and the fake object resultative construction are shown to derive from different characterizations of the basic aspectual scales of 'distance' and 'property' to which the semi-referential predicates, way and oneself, correspond respectively. This study shows that an element which behaves like a nonreferential adjunct in syntax can be an argument on its own in event structure, and thus suggests the independence of the two levels of linguistic representation.
- 山形大学の論文
- 2002-02-15
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