Grammatical Interfaces in English Object Extraposition
Grammatical Interfaces in English Object Extraposition
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英语宾语推论中的语法接口
DOI:
10.17250/khisli.25.3.200812.007
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发表时间:
2008
影响因子:
0.6
通讯作者:
Jong
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作者:
Jong
Kim, Jong-Bok. 2008. Grammatical Interfaces in English Object Extraposition. Linguistic Research 25(3), 117-131. English allows to extrapose a clausal element to the sentential position, leaving the expletive pronoun it. As such, English object extraposition appears to be a simple process, but a careful examination reveals much more complicated variations. In particular, we observe that there are cases where the expletive is obligatory, optional, and prohibited. The present analysis looks into the formal properties of English object extraposition and provides a way of capturing such variations relying on the grammatical interfaces among argument structure and realization, lexical information, functional constraints, and so forth. (Kyung Hee University)