부정사구문에서의 격자질 점검 = The Case-feature Checking in Infinitival Constructions

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The aim of this paper is to examine how Case-feature checking takes place in infinitival constructions under Chomsky's(1993,1995) Checking Theory of The Minimalist Program. In connection with this, the brief look at Case theory of P&P is the starting point of our discussion of the Case-feature checking in infinitival constructions, and the Case assignment to NPs, overt or covert, in the subject position of infinitival complements was discussed by grouping verbs taking infinitives as their complement into three patterns, try-, believe-, and expect-verb form. As a result, the possibility of replacing syntactic constraints or conditions proposed by Ross and Chomsky with Case theory and subsuming Bounding theory under Case theory has been revealed. In spite of its advantages mentioned above, Case theory has its theory-internal problems, the asymmetry between nominative and accusative Case assignment, the duplicate Case assignment and Exceptional Case marking.
The Case-assignment in Case theory has been replaced by Case-checking in Chomsky's Minimalist Program. The Case-checking in infinitival complements takes place in different manners, depending on what kind of verb pattern they belong to. The Case of a null PRO subject(try-) is checked in a different way from that of an objective subject(believe-verb pattern). That is, the null Case of a PRO subject is internally checked by the null Case of infinitive particle 'to':the Case of an objective subject is externally checked by a transitive matrix verb( ECM verbs such as 'believe'). But the verb 'expect' takes an infinitival complement whose subject position is occupied by a PRO subject or an objective subject; the former is internally checked by the null Case of particle 'to'.whereas the latter by a transitive matrix verb.
The Case-feature checking of an objective subject of the infinitival comlement clause taken by ECM verb like 'believe' and 'expect' was made possible by Chomsky's(1991,1993) AgrOp Analysis under Pollock's(1989) SIH. But the solutions to the problems of Case Theory provided by Chomsky's AgrOP Analysis becomes meaningless if AGR as a functional category which triggers Attract/Move-F is excluded from Grammar. As a matter of fact, Chomsky(1995) got rid of AGR as a functional category because of its irrelevance to LF and PF. If this is the case, the syntactic description of the nominative Case-checking in infinitival structures should be made in the following directions.
First, the lexical properties of verbs must be fully explored.
Second, the scope of syntactic analysis must be extended from sentence to discourse, because the reference relations of PRO have something to do with contexts.
Lastly, the syntactic properties of TP must be explored, together with those of infinitive particle 'to'.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서 론
• Ⅱ. P&P의 격이론과 부정사 구조의 격 할당
• Ⅲ. 최소이론에서의 격자질 점검
• Ⅳ. 부정사구문의 격자질 점검
• Ⅴ. 결 론