언어공학연구소 주최 Creative CORE 특강

Direct Compositionality in English Why-stripping:
A Corpus-based Approach

대학 인문역량 강화사업(CORE)의 지원을 받는 Creative 특강을 아래와 같이 개최하오니 관심을 갖고 계신 분들의 많은 참석을 바랍니다.

□ 일시 : 10월 10일(수) 17시 30분
□ 장소 : 교수회관 2층 강연실
□ 강연자 : 김종복 (경희대학교)

Why-stripping in English consists of the adverbial why phrase with a non-wh remnant, as attested by a corpus example like “Daddy, will you buy me a violin?” Sonya said. “Why violin?” (COCA 1995 FIC). The construction Why violin? is a nonsentential utterance (NSU), but receives a sentential interpretation. Such a form-meaning mismatching NSU raises the question of how we can account for the semantically propositional character of what appears to be syntactically less than sentential structures (Merchant 2004, Ginzburg and Sag 2000). In answering this question, we investigate a wider range of corpus data and discuss empirical issues in positing putative sentential sources as did in movement-based approaches. Recognizing empirical challenges to postulate proper source sentences for ellipsis in Why-stripping, the talk proposes a direct interpretation (DI) approach where the complete syntax of the remnant in why-stripping is just the categorial phrase projection of the fragment itself.

※ 문의: 언어공학연구소 langtech@hufs.ac.kr / 02) 2173-2872/2900

2018. 10. 08 

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