영어의 선택적관계에 대한 통사적 분석과 전산언어학에의 적용

Abstract

This paper has discussed the selectional relation between a selector and selectee, especially the long-distance relation. The classical analysis about the selectional relation claims that a selector and its selectee are in a local relation. Subjunctive constructions challenge the notion of the local relation between these two items in that the selector, the verb in the matrix clause, selects the one in the embedded clauses. The appearance of DP-hypothesis motivates another challenge to the local selectional relation. In the DP-hypothesis, DP intervenes between the selector and selectee, blocking the local relation between them. In our analysis, head-movement of feature at LF, as well as feature check-off, replaces the local relation between the selector and selectee. Specifically, the [+subjunctive] feature of the embedded clause moves to the matrix verb containing [+subjunctive] and is checked off for the sentence to be grammatical. If [-subjunctive] feature moves to the [+subjunctive] verb, the sentence crashes, yielding an ungrammatical sentence. This [+/-subjunctive] feature is employed in computer programming to judge the grammaticality of the subjunctive constructions.