Many Ways of English Preposition To: From a Grammaticalization Perspective
2
조회
0
다운로드
1
인용
0
참고문헌
키워드
초록
This paper attempts to explore the historical evolution of the English preposition to from a grammaticalization perspective. As a cause linker, to shows diverse semantic-functional characteristics in Present-day English as an Allative, Dative, and Complementizer marker. Considering such a diversity of a single form as a result of the historical pragmatics and cognitive reanalysis, this paper focuses on the analysis of the semantic-functional change of to undergone over time, the semantic extension patterns triggered by cognitive mechanisms, and the functional distributions in Modern/ Present-day English with synchronic and diachronic data. To examine the diverse paths and the semantic development shown in to, this paper suggests grammaticalization process that is largely enabled by the conceptual mechanisms along the event schema, and presents an explication for the relationship between allative and dative concepts based on the cognitive forces that operate in language use. The role of frequency is also discussed as a major trigger to cause the semantic generalization and functional shifts of this clause linker, and the distributional characteristics of to is presented based on both synchronic and diachronic observations. Further, this paper addresses the interrelations of phonetic bulk, semantic-functional complexity, frequency, and the degree of grammaticalization, which can be explained in terms of the Parallel Reduction Hypothesis (Bybee et al. 1994) and finally provides the theoretical implications on the basis of the observations obtained from the analysis of the preposition to.
Abstract
This paper attempts to explore the historical evolution of the English preposition to from a grammaticalization perspective. As a cause linker, to shows diverse semantic-functional characteristics in Present-day English as an Allative, Dative, and Complementizer marker. Considering such a diversity of a single form as a result of the historical pragmatics and cognitive reanalysis, this paper focuses on the analysis of the semantic-functional change of to undergone over time, the semantic extension patterns triggered by cognitive mechanisms, and the functional distributions in Modern/ Present-day English with synchronic and diachronic data. To examine the diverse paths and the semantic development shown in to, this paper suggests grammaticalization process that is largely enabled by the conceptual mechanisms along the event schema, and presents an explication for the relationship between allative and dative concepts based on the cognitive forces that operate in language use. The role of frequency is also discussed as a major trigger to cause the semantic generalization and functional shifts of this clause linker, and the distributional characteristics of to is presented based on both synchronic and diachronic observations. Further, this paper addresses the interrelations of phonetic bulk, semantic-functional complexity, frequency, and the degree of grammaticalization, which can be explained in terms of the Parallel Reduction Hypothesis (Bybee et al. 1994) and finally provides the theoretical implications on the basis of the observations obtained from the analysis of the preposition to.
참고문헌 (43)
- Baik, J, "On the Grammaticalization of English Preposition To", Paper presented at the KASELL Summer Conference on English Language & Linguistics (2008), Kookmin University
- Barlow, M., "Usage Based Models of Language" (2000), CSLI Publications
- Blake, B. J, "Case" (2001), Cambridge University Press
- Bybee, J. L, "Morphology: A Study of the Relation between Meaning and Form. in: Typological Studies in Language 9" (1985), John Benjamins
- Bybee, J. L, "Frequency Effects on French liaison. in: Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure", pp.337~360 (2001), John Benjamins
- Bybee, J. L., "Cross-linguistic Comparison and the Development of Grammatical Meaning. in: Historical Semantics, Historical Word Formation", pp.59~83 (1985), Mouton
- Bybee, J. L., "Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure" (2001), John Benjamins
- Bybee, J. L., "Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. in: The Evolution of Grammar" (1994), The University of Chicago Press
- Claudi, U, "On the Metaphorical Base of Grammar", Studies in Language, 10, pp.297~355 (1986)
- Craig, C, "Ways to Go in Rama: A Case Study in Polygrammaticalization. in: Approaches to Grammaticalization vol. 2", pp.455~492 (2002), John Benjamins
- DuBois, J, "The Discourse Basis of Ergativity", Language, 63(4), pp.805~855 (1987)
- Gamillscheg, E, "Historische Französiche Syntax" (1957), Niemeyer
- Givón, T, "On the Verbal Origin of the Bantu Verb Suffixes", Studies in African Linguistics, 2, pp.15~163 (1971)
- Givón, T, "On the Development of the Numeral One as an Indefinite Marker", Folia Linguistica Historia, 2(1), pp.35~53 (1981)
- "Givón, T. 1984. Direct Object and Dative Shifting: Semantic and Pragmatic Case, In Plank, S. (ed), 151-182", ~ (1984)
- Greenberg, J. H, "The Last Stages of Grammatical Elements: Contractive and Expansive Desemanticization. in: Approaches to Grammaticalization vol. 1", pp.301~314 (2002), John Benjamins
- Haiman, J, "Iconicity in Syntax" (1985), John Benjamins
- Haiman, J, "Ritualization and the Development of Language. in: Perspectives on Grammaticalization", pp.3~28 (1994), John Benjamins
- Halliday, M. A. K, "Cohesion in English" (1976), Longman
- Heine, B, "Cognitive Foundations of Grammar" (1997), Oxford University Press
- Heine, B., "A Conceptual Framework. in: Grammaticalization" (1991), The University of Chicago Press
- Heine, B, "World Lexicon of Grammaticalization. in: Approaches to Grammaticalization vol. 1", pp.17~35 (2002), John Benjamins
- Hopper, P. J., "Grammaticalization" (2003), Cambridge University Press
- Krug, M. G, "A Corpus-Based Study of Grammaticalization. in: Emerging English Modals" (2000), Mouton de Gruyter
- Krug, M. G, "Frequency as a Determinant in Grammatical Variation and Change. in: Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English", pp.7~76 (2004), John Benjamins
- Lee, K-D, "Yenge Cenchisa Yenkwu (English Prepositions)" (2002), Kyomunsa
- Lehmann, C, "Thoughts on Grammaticalization" (1995), LINCOM Europa
- Matisoff, J. A, "Areal and Universal Dimensions of Grammaticalization in Lahu. in: Approaches to Grammaticalization vol. 2", pp.383~453 (1991), John Benjamins
- Noonan, M, "Complementation. in: Language Typology and Syntactic Description vol. 2" (1985), Cambridge University Press
- O'Dowd, E. M, "A Discourse-functional Account. in: Prepositions and Particles in English" (1998), Oxford University Press
- "Oxford English Dictionary" (1991), Oxford University Press
- Quirk, R., "A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, Harlow" (1994), Longman
- Rhee, S, "Grammaticalization of Be-derived Prepositions in English", Discourse and Cognition, 9(2), pp.147~167 (2002)
- Rhee, S, "On Interrelation of Instrumental and Ablative", Discourse and Cognition, 14(3), pp.131~153 (2007)
- Sweetser, E, "Grammaticalization and Semantic Bleaching", Berkeley Linguistic Society, 14, pp.389~405 (1988)
- Sweetser, E, "Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure. in: From Etymology to Pragmatics" (1990), Cambridge University Press
- Traugott, E. C, "From Propositional to Textual and Expressive Meanings: Some Semantic-pragmatic Aspects of Grammaticalization. in: Perspectives on Historical Linguistics", pp.245~271 (1982), Benjamins
- Traugott, E. C, "Conditional Markers. in: Natural Syntax: Iconicity and Erosion", pp.289~307 (1985), Cambridge University Press
- Traugott, E. C, "The Semantics-pragmatics of Grammaticalization Revisited. in: Approaches to Grammaticalization vol. 1", pp.189~218 (1991), John Benjamins
- Traugott, E. C, "Regularity in Semantic Change" (2002), Cambridge University Press
- Visser, F. Th, "An Historical Syntax of the English Language, Parts Ⅰ-Ⅲ" (1963), E. J. Brill
- Wegener, H, "The Regrammaticalization of Linking Elements in German. in: Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization", pp.333~355 (2008), John Benjamins
- Zipf, G. K, "An Introduction to Dynamic Philology. in: The Psycho-biology of Language" (1935), The MIT Press
