• Language and Information
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.33-52
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• 2014

This paper proposes a unified structural account of some instances of the English Modals and Semi-auxiliaries. The classification and the syntactic/structural description of the English Modal auxiliary verbs and verb-related elements have long been the center for many proposals in the history of generative syntax. According to van Gelderen (1993) and Lightfoot (2002), it was sometime around 1380 that the Tense-node (T) appeared in the phrasal structures of the English language, and the T-node is under which the English Modal auxiliaries occupy. Closely related is the existing evidence that English Modals were used as main verbs up to the early sixteenth century (Lightfoot 1991, Han 2000). This paper argues for a bi-clausal approach to English Modal auxiliaries with the infinitival particle 'to' such as 'ought to' 'used to' and 'dare (to)' 'need (to)', etc. and Semi-auxiliaries including 'be to' and 'have to'. More specifically, 'ought' in 'ought to' constructions, for instance, undergoes V-to-T movement within the matrix clause, just like 'HAVEAux' and all instances of 'BE', whereas 'to' occupies the T position of the embedded complement clause. By proposing the bi-clausal account, Radford's (2004, 2009) problems can be solved. Further, the historical motivation for the account takes a stance along with Norde (2009) and Brinton & Traugott (2005) in that Radford's (2004, 2009) syncretization of the two positions of the infinitival particle 'to' is no different from the 'boundary loss' in the process of Grammariticalization. This line of argument supports Krug's (2011), and in turn Bolinger's(1980) generalization on Auxiliaryhood, while providing a novel insight into Head movement of V-to-T in Present Day English.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.290-296
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• 1995

본고는 한국어에 나타나는 동사의 연쇄현상(serialization in verbals)에 있어서 단일절(mono-clausal)내에서 소위 복합동사(compound verb)라 불리는 일련의 동사들의 결합 현상을 고찰한다. 연결사(linker/connective)를 매개로 서로 결합하는 동사 연쇄증에는, 일반적으로 동사하나가 하나의 사건을 나타내는데 비해 2개 이상의 동사가 배열됨에도 동시에 일어나 묶여질 수 있는 하나의 사건(single event)을 지칭하는 동사부류가 존재하는데, 이를 통해 동사 결합간 긴밀성을 우선적으로 유추할 수 있고, 역으로 통사적 현상에 의해 그 긴밀성이 확인된다는 점에서 문장 접속의 통어적 구성과는 다른 문법범주 형성을 뒷받침하는 개념적 근거가 된다. 여기에서는, 이러한 연속동사구성(연쇄동사)에 있어 행위성/비대격성을 지니는 동사들간의 연쇄현상을 제약하는 여러 원인들을 검토하고 아울러 이들의 의미적 범주선택을 고려한 거르개로서의 생성여과 규약을 제안한다.