영어의 Gapping조건에 관한 연구 = A Study on the Conditions of Gapping in English

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This article has dealt with the conditions of Gapping in English by usign both syntactic and nonsyntactic approaches.
The main findings by syntactic analysis are as follows:
a. Gapping can be applied if clauses are conjoined by coordinating conjunctions but it can not be applied if clauses are conjoined by subordinating conjunctions.
b. Gapping can be applied if two conjoined clauses have unlike auxiliaries and if they have identical auxiliaries, the auxiliary as well as the main verb in the second conjunct must be gapped.
c. When unlike adverbs appear before verbs, Gapping can not be applied but if identical adverbs appear before verbs, the adverb in the second conjunct must be gapped together with the verb.
d. Negation in the auxiliaries can not be gapped.
e. If the VP of the right conjunct has the order NP VP, only NP can not be gapped.
f. If the VP of the right conjunct has the order NP NP, neither of the two NPs can be gapped.
g. If the output structure derived from another source that has the deleted part on the leftmost position, Gapping can not be applied.
h. Gapping can not be applied so that the nonlet peripheral NP except the clitic pronoun adjacent to its V may be deleted.
1. In the light of syntactic function the two constituents left behind by Gapping must have the parallelism with the constituents in the first conjunct which are paired.
The main findings by nonsyntactic analysis are as follows;
a. The two constituents left behind by Gapping can be most readily coupled with the constituents of teh same structures in the first conjunct that were processed last of all.
b. Contituents deleted by Gapping must be contxtually known. On the other hand, the two constituents in the first conjunct that represent new information.
c. When Gapping leaves an NP and a VP behind , the two constituents are readily interpreted as contstituting a sentential pattern, with the NP representing th subject of the VP.
d. The two constituents left over by Gapping are most readily interpretable as entering into a simplex-sentential relationship. The intelligibility of gapped sentences declines drastically if there is no such relationship between the constituents.
e. It may be that it is easier to apply Gapping to a string that represents a unitary self-contained semantic concept than to a string that does not.
f. The two constituents left behind by Gapping must be pairwise identical with the constituents in the first conjunct in the light of semantic function.
In conclusion, it has been shown that it is difficult to give a simple and persuasive explanation of the Conditions of Gapping in English by using only syntactic approach or nonsyntactic approach. Therfore, it would be more desirable to explain the degree of acceptability of the gapped sentences by the interaction of both styntactic and nonsyntactic factors.
In addition to the factors discussed in this article, many other factors that are still unknown would surely affect the grammaticality of gapped sentences. Therefore, a further study will be needed.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ.서 론
• Ⅱ.Syntactic Approach
• Ⅲ.Nonsyntactic Approach
• Ⅳ.요약 및 결론
• * References
• * Abstract