There-구문의 존재성 연구
A Study on Existentiality of There-Construction
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This study aims to closely examine ‘existentiality,’ the central concept of existential there-construction in terms of pragmatic and cognitive analyses mainly based on Bolinger(1977) and Lakoff(1987) and then modestly propose that existential there-construction has a dual function simultaneously performed by existential ‘there’ itself: sentence-internal and sentence-external function. Most of the foregoing studies on the there-construction in the traditional grammar and the modern generative grammar as well are arguably based on the intrasentential existence and have failed to explain the significant difference in the use of the two examples below from Bolinger(1977: 95). a. In my right hand is a pencil. [deictic]b. In my left hand there’s an eraser. [existential](a) and (b) are never interchangeable and each presupposes its own pragmatic context. (b) only is an existential there-construction, where there’s function is to bring something into th hearer’s awareness. We argue that this extrasentential function must be distinguished from the intrasentential function which realizes the existence of the indefinite associate NP in the general existential there-construction. (Ulsan University)
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This study aims to closely examine ‘existentiality,’ the central concept of existential there-construction in terms of pragmatic and cognitive analyses mainly based on Bolinger(1977) and Lakoff(1987) and then modestly propose that existential there-construction has a dual function simultaneously performed by existential ‘there’ itself: sentence-internal and sentence-external function. Most of the foregoing studies on the there-construction in the traditional grammar and the modern generative grammar as well are arguably based on the intrasentential existence and have failed to explain the significant difference in the use of the two examples below from Bolinger(1977: 95). a. In my right hand is a pencil. [deictic]b. In my left hand there’s an eraser. [existential](a) and (b) are never interchangeable and each presupposes its own pragmatic context. (b) only is an existential there-construction, where there’s function is to bring something into th hearer’s awareness. We argue that this extrasentential function must be distinguished from the intrasentential function which realizes the existence of the indefinite associate NP in the general existential there-construction. (Ulsan University)
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